2014-11-24 23:36 GMT+03:00 Roger Meier <ro...@bufferoverflow.ch>: > Hi all > > The Apache Thrift compiler is optionally using CMake already and we had > very good experience by using CMake also for the cpp library to get it up > and running on Linux-ARM, Linux-x86, Windows CE and Windows. > > I like to propose CMake as an additional build system for Apache Thrift. > > Goal: Extend Apache Thrift's *make cross* approach to the build system. > > Due to growing field of operating system support, a proper executable > and library detection mechanism running on as much platforms as possible > becomes required. The other aspect is simplify the release process and > package generation process. > > As nice side benefit of CMake is the generation of development environment > specific solution files(VisualStudio, Eclipse, Xcode, etc. ). > => No solution files within source tree. > > see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2850 > > What are your thoughts? >
+1 Look forward to see it in Apache thrift mainline. The main problem I see is to keep both build systems (autotools & cmake) in sync. > > all the best! > -roger > > -- Best Regards, Sergei Nikulov
