neovim/third-party/README.md

# Third party dependencies for neovim

This directory contains the recipes to build any third party dependencies for
neovim which, for one reason or another, we cannot rely on the system to supply.

Most of the details are captured in the `CMakeLists.txt`, but we have a
dedicated directory in case any of the dependencies requires patching and other
support.
third-party: add note on role of directory Add a brief README on the purpose of the third-party directory and some suggestions for how to manage it. The neovim bigwigs may want to re-draft the README. 2014-02-24 03:31:37 -07:00			`# Third party dependencies for neovim`

Revamp the build system. This achieves several goals: * Less reliance on scripts so we have better portability to Windows (though we still have a ways to go for proper Windows support). Luajit, luarocks, moonscript, and busted are all installed via CMake now. * Trying to make use of pkg-config to get the correct libraries. The latest libuv is still broken in this regard, but we'll at least be in a position to use it. * Allow the use of Ninja or make. The former runs faster in many environments, and automatically makes use of parallel builds. This also allows for system installed dependencies--though not through the Makefile just yet--and adds support for FreeBSD. This also make us build libuv and luajit as static libraries only, since we're only concerned about having static libraries for our bundled dependencies. 2014-03-03 08:09:06 -07:00			`This directory contains the recipes to build any third party dependencies for`
			`neovim which, for one reason or another, we cannot rely on the system to supply.`
third-party: add note on role of directory Add a brief README on the purpose of the third-party directory and some suggestions for how to manage it. The neovim bigwigs may want to re-draft the README. 2014-02-24 03:31:37 -07:00
Revamp the build system. This achieves several goals: * Less reliance on scripts so we have better portability to Windows (though we still have a ways to go for proper Windows support). Luajit, luarocks, moonscript, and busted are all installed via CMake now. * Trying to make use of pkg-config to get the correct libraries. The latest libuv is still broken in this regard, but we'll at least be in a position to use it. * Allow the use of Ninja or make. The former runs faster in many environments, and automatically makes use of parallel builds. This also allows for system installed dependencies--though not through the Makefile just yet--and adds support for FreeBSD. This also make us build libuv and luajit as static libraries only, since we're only concerned about having static libraries for our bundled dependencies. 2014-03-03 08:09:06 -07:00			Most of the details are captured in the `CMakeLists.txt`, but we have a
			`dedicated directory in case any of the dependencies requires patching and other`
			`support.`