On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Christian Stimming wrote: >> Author: cstim >> Date: 2010-02-24 12:52:24 -0500 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) >> New Revision: 18717 >> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18717 >> >> Added: >> gnucash/trunk/src/CMakeLists.txt >> gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/CMakeLists.txt >> Log: >> Add some experimental CMakeLists.txt which can compile the libqof part, on >> Linux, Windows/mingw and (no joke) Windows/MSVC. >> >> I'm interested in some tests with the cmake build system, but >> if it doesn't prove useful I will remove it again within a >> few weeks. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-patches mailing list >> gnucash-patc...@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-patches >> > Great idea! > > The issue we had on Windows the last couple of days had me thinking about a > univeral build system we could use on all our supported platforms. Cmake may > be a good candidate, I thought of as well. > > I don't have any experience with cmake though, so at this stage I won't be of > much help. > > But I wanted to let you know I'm interested anyway :) >
I recommend Bakefile (http://www.bakefile.org), which has the major advantage of preparing build scripts for the native build tools without introducing a dependency for people compiling from tarballs. CMake is its own build tool. That said, neither CMake nor Bakefile will solve the M$Win problem, because there's just no way to maintain cmakelists or bakefiles for the several dozen dependencies (jhbuild counts them, so I know that it takes 76 packages to build Gnucash from scratch -- and that doesn't include autotools or perl. Actually, if someone with some M$Win & Python skills were interested, I think jhbuild would prove much more maintainable that the current collection of shell scripts. That's still not going to get you MSVC projects, though; jhbuild is very autotools-centric.) Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
