On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com> wrote:
>>> I think one of their main points was to generate standalone projects >>> that do not require CMake to build. >> >> Yes. As mentioned in point 5. >> > This will never happen with CMake. CMake will always be required to be on > the machine doing the build. There is just no other way to do system > introspection. Also, if you don't have something like CMake around it is > hard to write cross platform build files that are complex in anyway (i.e. > needs to copy files at build time). Actually, it could happen, or at least the requirement could be softened. I developed a bootstrapper for Wt ( http://webtoolkit.eu ) which requires nothing more than a C++ compiler and a command prompt (Windows) or bash (Unix) to build. It's essentially a couple of scripts which download CMake and some basic dependencies, then ExternalProject_Add all other dependencies, making the project buildable in a self-contained directory, including all the dependencies. Maybe some option could be added to CMake to "generate" such scripts and make it easier to bootstrap? (Details on what I did here: "Bootstrap your CMake project" - http://www.elpauer.org/?p=614 ) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
