Jorge Schrauwen wrote :
It would be awsome to have a build platform thats cross platform like
ant but for c(++) I'm not sure that exists though. Never look.
As I have mentioned before, the CMake project seems to be what is needed
in that situation, as this software, like autoconf, performs various
configuration checks specified in a script file, and then generates a
set of Makefile/Project files, depending on the target platform, Unix,
Windows, or whatever. On Windows, it can generate project files for any
MSVC version, starting from VC6 to VS 2008 (Win32 and Win64).
It has very few dependencies, and seems to be used by large projects,
notably KDE, and interestingly for the ASF, for the Windows build of PCRE.
The PCRE's CMakeLists.txt is IMHO a good starting point to understand
various points of interest for a powerful Windows build system for
Apache, like configuration variables, dependencies handling, header file
generation, dynamic libraries, and even installation generation.
I can volunteer to port Apache 2 to a Cmake based build system for
Windows, even though I can't guarantee I can get results very fast due
to my current basic knowledge of Cmake, as well as _very_ basic
knowledge of the Apache source code arborescence.
If such a thing would be done, what would be in your opinion a good
starting point in the Apache repository ? (2.3.0-alpha ? the current 2.2
branch ? trunk ?)
