Projects with the tag CMake
- Nova Sonic needed the speech framework’s pipelines delivered as a containerized gRPC service: audio and system prompts streaming in, inference requests streaming out. The team’s code had only ever been called through JNI.
- Mapped gRPC C++’s bidirectional-streaming reactor onto the framework’s pipe abstraction once, as a reusable layer covering session setup and teardown, signal handling, graceful error handling and logging.
- A new service needs under 300 lines of integration code: which pipe input receives request messages, and which pipe outputs become response messages. Adopted org-wide as the standard way to deploy a pipeline.
- Established Protobuf and gRPC generated code as first-class CMake libraries in the framework’s build, so the same generated types are consumed by the pipeline’s nodes and by the server without duplicate-symbol conflicts.
- The legacy ASR engine, roughly 500k lines of C++, was built by its owners with GCC and plain CMake for the cloud. The on-device team consumed it as a library across about 7 ARM toolchains from the Android NDK plus 4 x86 gcc/clang variants, through a Conan-based build layer.
- Before: on-device releases were hand-curated snapshots of the upstream engine, maintained in forks of every ASR package and re-merged periodically. Each release took days at minimum and often weeks, as toolchain-specific breakage surfaced and needed patches.
- Fix: point all engine code at a single virtual build-system package. In the cloud dependency universe it resolves to bare CMake; in the device universe it resolves to the Conan layer, which drives the same CMake underneath. About 40 packages converted; one source tree builds for all 12 toolchains.
- Kept it that way with a pre-merge analyzer that compiles every pull request against the device toolchains before it can land, so device compatibility is checked at merge time rather than discovered at release time.