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| 2 | kBuild / VBox Build Tricks
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| 3 | ==========================
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| 4 |
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| 5 |
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| 6 | Introduction
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| 7 | ------------
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| 8 |
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| 9 | This document is written in reStructuredText (rst) which just happens to
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| 10 | be used by Python, the primary language for this revamp. For more information
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| 11 | on reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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| 12 |
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Changing the output directory
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| 15 | -----------------------------
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| 16 |
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| 17 | When switch between different VBox build settings it can be nice to have
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| 18 | different output directories to avoid having to rebuild the whole source tree
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| 19 | everything. One typical example is hardening, another is guest additions using
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| 20 | crossbuild gcc w/ SDK. The latter is is simpler so that's the first example:
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| 21 |
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| 22 | .. code:: makefile
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| 24 | ifdef VBOX_WITH_COMPATIBLE_LINUX_GUEST_PACKAGE
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| 25 | PATH_OUT_BASE = $(PATH_ROOT)/add-out
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| 26 | endif
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| 27 |
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| 28 | The following example is the typical developer setup, i.e. disable hardening by
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| 29 | default but respect command line overrides (kmk VBOX_WITH_HARDENING=1):
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| 30 |
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| 31 | .. code:: make
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| 32 |
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| 33 | VBOX_WITH_HARDENING :=
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| 34 | ifeq ($(VBOX_WITH_HARDENING),)
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| 35 | VBOX_WITHOUT_HARDENING=1
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| 36 | else
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| 37 | PATH_OUT_BASE = $(PATH_ROOT)/hard-out
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| 38 | endif
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| 39 |
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Share tools download directory between trunk and branches
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| 42 | ---------------------------------------------------------
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| 43 |
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| 44 | To avoid filling up your disk with unnecessary tool zip and tar.gz files, set
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| 45 | the FETCHDIR variable in LocalConfig.kmk to point to a common directory for all
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| 46 | VBox checkouts.
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| 47 |
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| 48 | .. code:: make
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| 49 |
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| 50 | FETCHDIR = $(HOME)/Downloads/FetchDir
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| 51 |
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| 52 |
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| 53 | -----
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| 54 |
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| 55 | .. [1] no such footnote
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| 57 |
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| 58 | -----
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| 59 |
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| 60 | :Status: $Id: kBuild-tricks.txt 106065 2024-09-16 21:42:41Z vboxsync $
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| 61 | :Copyright: Copyright (C) 2006-2024 Oracle Corporation.
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