Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-31 Thread James Mansion
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Quite so. CMake outputs MSVC Project files, as I understand it. If you know of another cross-platform build tool that will do that then speak up. I think the wxWidgets team have one, and I think scons has some support for doing that, though I haven't tried that part of

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Jonah H. Harris wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: But of course those are just as straightforward in autoconf. It's the not-straightforward stuff that's going to be a PITA to translate. As much as I dislike

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gregory Stark wrote: We could use autoconf on win32 using cygwin utilities for things like sh and awk. Just because we use those tools doesn't mean we have to use a cygwin compiler or linker to actually do the build. Making Cygwin a build time requirement for using MSVC is something we

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Jonah H. Harris wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: But of course those are just as straightforward in autoconf. It's the not-straightforward stuff that's going to be a PITA to translate.