On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc <cmake@cmake.org> wrote: [...]
> @Nicolas: > > Yes, these tools indeed have been working for the past few decades. Others > also suggested why don’t I generate CMakelists.txt instead? > > The problem is that the current limitations of CMake all originate from > the way the workflow is organized. Multi-configuration makefiles are > trivial to implement if you do them by hand. All targets append the > architecture after their name (app-x86, app-x64, lib-x86, etc.) and there > were all-x86 and all-x64 targets, and there were the usual “all” target > that references all-x86, all-x64. In CMake the workflow is baked into > selecting an architecture at the earliest points in the configuration > process and stores it as a global variable (state!) which then shoots all > multi-configuration generators in the knee. > > Yes, it is possible to remove this limitation from CMake, but it would > take roughly a year. Holding onto this limitation alone just because it is > historically the way how CMake has been designed immediately rules it out > from ~75% of application development going on in the world in the future > (mobile app devel), which is funny because building cross-platform mobile > apps is the future, and this is just the market that could benefit of CMake > the most. > I always used CMake for generating Makefile targeting a single architecture. I tried few times to generate Visual Studio project and XCode project and my first impression was quite good. But I have not a lot of experiences in this area. I agree with you that the users will need multi architecture support more in the future. -- Nicolas Desprès
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