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

[erwin at erwincoumans.com]

It's a great idea, autogeneration of projectfiles for all platforms and 
versions. Even just the manual update for the visual studio and Xcode 
projectfiles would make it worth the effort.
I do a similar thing with jam+mscvgen, but not as good as CMake. 

So Hans, do you have the time to setup such a system? I got a new MacBook, 
so I can test the Xcode files ;-) 

Erwin 

 

GSR writes: 

> Hi,
> joeedh at gmail.com (2006-07-09 at 1622.02 -0700):
>> 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.
> 
> The point is they would only maintain one (1) and only one, which is
> more than zero and less than two, and shalt thou count to one, no
> more, no less (this holy grenade has a faster fuse)... and that system
> should work in a varied range of compiler/OS/etc setups. 
> 
> GSR
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