On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Robert Middleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Thorsten Schöning
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Guten Tag Robert Middleton,
>> am Freitag, 21. April 2017 um 18:27 schrieben Sie:
>>
>>> That's correct, there's no need for ant at this point
>>
>> So we are dropping Ant and deleting it altogether? I can't remember a
>> clear outcome of our former discussions. :-) This way we'll loose
>> entire support for building in Visual Studio and such on Windows,
>> generation of project files etc. This worked in the past at least.
>>
>
> My preference would be to use CMake, since it can generate the project
> files on Windows for Visual Studio.  At least one problem with using
> Ant is that the plugin that was being used to generate the Visual
> Studio files(cpptasks) is currently unmaintained; CMake is regularly
> maintained. Since CMake is designed to be cross-platform anyway, it
> seems like the logical choice to use.
>
> -Robert Middleton

I was a little bored this weekend, so I went and converted the project
to CMake: https://github.com/rm5248/logging-log4cxx/tree/cmake-updates2

I have tested this on both Linux and Windows.  If people are OK with
CMake, I can make a PR from this branch.  The only things left to do:

* Remove all autotools files
* Update documentation on how to build
* Fix optionconvertertestcase(this is currently broken on my Jenkins
build and on my system, but it did work before)

-Robert Middleton

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