On Dec 19, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Yhc uses Scons. I personally don't recommend it.
Makefiles are obviously absolutely horrible on Windows.
CMake is next on my list of "build systems to try"
Thanks for the advice! My reason for suggesting SCons was that it
seemed to work well with Yhc--of course what isn't apparent is the
amount of work you put in to make it work well :) The other reason
for SCons was its flexibility as a scripting language to allow
different toolsets (i.e., ghc) and file types (i.e., .hs, .cmm). Of
course, CMake has been used for the Chicken Scheme compiler so it
can't be that hard: we would have to write a lot of
ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND commands.
Have you looked into Bakefile or Interscript? CMake looks more
powerful than Bakefile, which ends up using nmake on Windows, while
Interscript is really a literate programming language with the
ability to execute scripts. Interscript works very well for Felix
but it is a bizarre system to work with.
One really powerful alternative--though at one time I hated it as a
user--is Boost.Jam. What I am really looking for is built-in support
for different C compilers since adapting any build system is really
just using a specialised scripting language. It might be possible to
adapt or extend Cabal, even...
Cheers,
Pete
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