On 11/28/2014 6:39 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
One idea I had, which is easily done in SCons, is to auto-generate makefiles for each platform. On the dev box, run scons with a particular virtual target, say `scons genmake` or something like that, and it will iterate over each supported platform and spit out a makefile using the dependency tree it already knows. The generated makefile will be a list of hard-coded rules for building stuff, with no macros and what-not, so it will Just Work, but not do much more than that. These generated makefiles can then be shipped as part of the source distribution, but they need not (and probably should not!) be in the git tree.
I would think that premake or CMake would be better for that sort of thing. In addition to the pregenerated Makefiles, you could also keep premake.lua (or the CMake stuff) in the source tree and then anyone who wanted could generate Visual Studio project files, customized makefiles or whatever else they needed.
