This is a large rework of my first attempt at this (#459).
This implementation calls into the recently implemented python scripts
to generate the necessary generated ``.h`` and ``.cpp`` files but is
independent from Python building system otherwise. Unlike the Python
build system, the generated files are emitted into the build tree to
avoid polluting the source tree. The build system is setup to refuse to
configure if it detects generated files in the source tree. If your
source tree is dirty you can run ``git clean -fx`` to clean your working
directory.
Currently the build succeeds on Linux using CMake 3.4.3 using
the "Unix Makefiles" generator with gcc or clang.
The following notable features are implemented:
* Building of the C and C++ examples and the ``test-z3`` executable.
These are included from the ``all`` target so you have to tell the
build system (e.g. make) to build them manually.
* Install (``make install``) and uninstall (``make uninstall``) of libz3
and its header files. This supports ``DESTDIR`` out of the box because
CMake supports it.
* An option (``BUILD_LIBZ3_SHARED``) to build libz3 as a static or dynamic library.
* Support for using/not using OpenMP (``USE_OPENMP``)
* Support for using/not using libgmp (``USE_LIB_GMP``)
* Setting the SOVERSION for libz3. I'm not sure if I'm setting the
* number correctly though. This is required by Linux distrubtions that
wills ship libz3. This needs discussion.
The following notable features are currently not implemented
and are left for future work.
* Support for ARM.
* Support for the foci2 library.
* Support for creating/installing/uninstalling the dotnet, java, python and ml
bindings.
* Full support for MSVC. Although I've tried to write the CMake code
with MSVC in mind not all the correct flags are passed to it.
* Support for using the git hash.
This new build system has several advantages other the old build system.
* It is easier for outside contributors to contribute to Z3 when the
build system is something more standard.
* Incremental builds work properly. With the old build system when
new code is pulled down the old build directory would need to thrown
out and a new fresh build had to be performed because the build system
didn't know how to correctly rebuild the project (e.g. couldn't handle
new sources being added/removed, compiler flags changing, generated
files changing, etc...). This is a MASSIVE boost to productivity!
* We now have access rich array of features that CMake provides for
building C/C++ projects. This means less time spent implementing
custom build system logic in Python that is already supported by
CMake.
* CMake supports many IDEs out of the box so it should be fairly
straight forward to build Z3 with Visual Studio (once support for MSVC
is added), Xcode, Eclipse CDT, CLion, ..etc.
