On March 11, 2019 6:03:24 PM MDT, hex <[email protected]> wrote:
>hi everyone,
>
>There are many generators supported in CMake. A CMake build system
>allows me to generate the preferred build environment for everyone,
>visual studio, eclipse, ninja you name it.
>
>The problem I see with this is that projects are generated output
>files,
>and even if that gives everyone the starting point in the way he/she is
>
>used to, they will probably want to further customize their project
>preferences. But every build folder, every library that is added to the
>
>project sources later on in CMake must be reflected in those projects
>as
>well. This means any customizations done outside of CMake is lost.
>
You don't ship the generated files with the source. Everyone runs cmake for
themselves.
And if you did ship some, like a Makefile, you would not customize that any
more than you'd customize it from an autoconf project.
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