On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, JonY <jo...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 11/11/2012 16:42, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:26 AM, JonY <jo...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >>> Sounds like they are reinventing autotools. >> >> As Ruben says, it's not the case. >> >> The main problem with autotools is they do not support Windows. Even >> with CoApp, autotools support is far from *acceptable* on Windows. >> > > Here I am using autotools to drive MSVC tools.
And it's not easy, or nice. > You call writing and coding for every possible combination forwards? Same as autotools: you need to consider all the casuistic for all the different platforms you want to support out-of-the-box. CMake provides support for most of those cases, but you will need to write your own code in some cases. If the user wants to build on a not-ready-made platform, then he needs to specify the variable values when calling cmake: $ cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/opt/blah/myccompiler -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=blah ... Or the user can create a myplatform.cmake file with all that information and use it for *every* project that uses CMake: cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/opt/blah/cmake/toolchain.cmake > Like I said in another email, cmake was too rigid, so autotools is here > to stay, for better or worst. I don't know when you tried CMake but it's came a long way since KDE adopted it (~2006). I'm not going to argue this anymore, but I stand by my opinion: the moment you need to support Unix and Windows, and you want niceties such as easy debugging with Visual Studio, autotools are a nightmare. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
