On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 at 21:58, Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Den mån 10 juni 2024 kl 10:55 skrev Jun Omae <jun6...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:32 AM Daniel Sahlberg > > [...] > > >> >> Of course, you can use cmake to build apr on Windows. I use cmake to >> build apr, apr-util and httpd as dependencies of subversion on >> Windows. >> > > I also tried this, since my longterm goal is to build Subversion, where > there is some work going on to add a cmake based build system. > > It seems there are at least four different options, with the documentation > in various stage of completeness: > * .DSW files > * Makefile.win > * CMake > * vcpkg > > Cleanup of .dsw and NMake (Makefile.win) builds was proposed four years ago [1], but people objected to this idea. So .dsw and Makefile.win are still there, but as far as I know they have many limitations compared to CMake. I recommend using CMake to build APR on Windows. In my opinion CMake has many quirks, but it's a clear winner these days and most projects using it to build on Windows. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the bar to get started with APR is > relatively high. Please don't take this as complaints - I'd be happy to > help in any way I can to improve the documentation. > > It would be great! Patches welcome! -- Ivan Zhakov
