[Bf-committers] handcrafted makefiles, autotools, scons and cmake ?

Joe Eagar joeedh at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 01:22:02 CEST 2006


Hans Lambermont wrote:
> This might be interesting to Blender too : "CMake" http://www.cmake.org/ .
>
> A nice read about CMake : "Why the KDE project switched to CMake"
> http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/ (which also has an interesting blurp on
> KDE's CVS to Subversion switch).
>
> In brief : KDE used autotools, evaluated SCons and finally choose CMake.
> CMake supports basically every UNIX, MS Windows (MSVC, Borland, cygwin,
> mingw) and Mac OS X. CMake can generate Makefiles ... and XCode (Mac OS
> X IDE) and several versions of MS Visual Studio (Windows IDE, >=7).
>
>   
IMHO I think this would be a bad idea.  At the moment, coders are 
expected to maintain the makefiles and SConscripts, not to mention 
keeping the VC 7/8 project files up-to-date if they can.

We don't need more then four build systems, surely.

Joe


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