On 4 March 2015 at 20:58, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/04/15 14:10, Graham Bloice wrote:
>
>> On 4 March 2015 at 19:04, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jeff.morriss...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 03/04/15 11:55, Graham Bloice wrote:
>>
>>         On 4 March 2015 at 16:44, Jeff Morriss
>>         <jeff.morriss...@gmail.com <mailto:jeff.morriss...@gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.__com
>>
>>         <mailto:jeff.morriss...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>              On 03/04/15 04:07, Michal Labedzki wrote:
>>
>>                      On 03/03/15 11:50, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
>>
>>                          And also if i remember the target is only have
>>         CMake for
>>                          build system
>>                          (and remove autofoo...)
>>
>>
>>                  I hope there will be only CMake in near future (imply
>>         remove
>>                  autotools). As I know cmake aka build systems working
>>         for all
>>                  platforms. What about remove building part of
>>         autotools, use
>>                  cmake for
>>                  that and use autotools for other tasks?
>>
>>
>>              It may work but last I checked it didn't work too well:
>>         there's a
>>              bunch of stuff that works when running from an autotools
>> build
>>              directory that doesn't from a cmake directory.  And it
>> doesn't
>>              appear many people have been working on that.
>>
>>
>>         Maybe that should be enumerated somewhere.  I've only built (off
>>         Windows) on Ubuntu using CMake and it worked for me.  On Windows
>>         there
>>         are a few bits left to finish off, but I think the nmake usage
>>         is coming
>>         to an end.
>>
>>
>>     It generally works it's just missing features.  A bunch are
>>     documented in README.cmake but not all.  For example I think Evan
>>     found that the test suite--at least the Lua portion--don't work in
>>     cmake builds; I fixed that in autotools (starting with
>>     https://code.wireshark.org/__review/3348
>>     <https://code.wireshark.org/review/3348>) but I don't think anyone
>>     has touched the cmake part (I gave up even thinking about cmake a
>>     while ago).
>>
>>
>> Must
>> force
>> change
>> of
>> Jeff's
>> viewpoint
>> of
>> CMake
>>
>> I'l be sending the vibes over later :-)
>>
>
> How about a cmake book--oh, and the time and inclination to read it (the
> docs and answers I found online didn't help me a lot)?  Ah, I guess the
> inclination part may be the real problem now--so maybe the vibes /would/
> help. ;-)
>
>
>
 And what is an easy cross-compilation target to aim for (with Ubuntu as
the host OS)?

-- 
Graham Bloice
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