MixDown

MixDown is a meta-build tool that makes it easier to build software packages that have multiple dependencies. It uses a simple input file format to describe package information, and uses a series of heuristics to automatically generate an initial problem input file from a collection of tar, zip files, or download URLs.

MixDown supports the following targets:

• Local tarballs and zipfiles (e.g., /tmp/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz)
• Download URLs for tarballs and zipfiles (e.g., http://www.example.com/download/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz)
• Local directories that contain the source code to be built (e.g., /tmp/foo-1.2.3/)
• Subversion repositories
• Mercurial (hg) repositories
• Git repositories

Examples

Subversion

Here's how you would use MixDown to build subversion. First, create an initial MixDown project file using information from the source tarballs of subversion and its dependencies (the order doesn't matter):

mixdown --import \
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.12.tar.bz2 \
http://www.eng.lsu.edu/mirrors/apache/apr/apr-1.3.12.tar.bz2 \
http://www.eng.lsu.edu/mirrors/apache/apr/apr-util-1.3.11.tar.bz2 \
http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.29.5.tar.gz \
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3070500.tar.gz

This will create a MixDown project file called subversion-1.6.12.md.

Next, execute the build:

mixdown subversion-1.6.12.md

Usage

MixDown - A tool to simplify building

Profile Mode: 
    Example Usage: mixdown --profile

    Required:
    --profile                 Toggle Profile mode

    Optional:
    -d<list>      List of non-recursive search directories (comma-delimited)
       Example: -d/home/foo/bin,/usr/local/bin
    -r            List of recursive search directories (comma-delimited)
       Example: -r/home/foo/bin,/usr/local/bin
    <.mdo output file>   Path to outputted MixDown override group file

Import Mode: 
    Example Usage: mixdown --import foo.tar.gz http://path/to/bar

    Required:
    --import                  Toggle Import mode
    <package location list>   Space delimited list of package locations

    Optional:
    -i            Interactive Mode
    -v            Verbose Mode

Build Mode (Default): 
    Example Usage: mixdown foo.md

    Required:
    <path to .md file>   Path to MixDown project file

    Optional:
    -v            Verbose Mode
    -f            Force full rebuild (ignores success of previous build)
    -j<number>    Number of build job slots
    -t<number>    Number of threads used to build concurrent targets
    -s<list>      Add steps to skip for individual targets
       Example: -starget1:preconfig,target2:config
    -o<path>      Specify path to Override Groups file
    -g<Compiler>,<Debug>,<Parallel>  Specify Override Groups
       Example: -gGNU,Debug,MPI
       Example: -gGNU,,
    -p<path>      Override prefix directory
    -b<path>      Override build directory
    -w<path>      Override download directory
    -l<logger>    Override default logger (Console, File, Html)
    -k            Keeps previously existing MixDown directories

Clean Mode: 
    Example Usage: mixdown --clean foo.md

    Required:
    --clean              Toggle Clean mode
    <path to .md file>   Path to MixDown project file

    Optional:
    -v            Verbose Mode
    -j<number>    Number of build job slots
    -t<number>    Number of threads used to build concurrent targets
    -s<list>      Add steps to skip for individual targets
       Example: -starget1:preconfig,target2:config
    -o<path>      Specify path to Override Groups file
    -g<Compiler>,<Debug>,<Parallel>  Specify Override Groups
       Example: -gGNU,Debug,MPI
       Example: -gGNU,,
    -p<path>      Override prefix directory
    -b<path>      Override build directory
    -w<path>      Override download directory
    -l<logger>    Override default logger (Console, File, Html)

Default Directories:
Builds:       mdBuild/
Downloads:    mdDownload/
Logs:         mdLogFiles/