[Bf-committers] minimum required cmake version ?

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 00:19:33 CEST 2009


+1 for cmake 2.6 (2.6.3 if you want).
Have been using CMake with Eclipse on linux recently and found it an
excellent combination.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Alexander Neundorf<neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently when building blender with cmake, at least version 2.4.0 of cmake is
> required.
> The current released version of cmake is 2.6.4.
>
> I would suggest to require at least version 2.4.5 of cmake. A lot of bug fixes
> (compared to 2.4.0) went into it, and also some features.
> CMake 2.4.5 is the version of cmake which was required by KDE 4.0 and 4.1. KDE
> 4.0 was released early 2008, so by now basically all Linux distributions ship
> at least this version of cmake.
>
> But actually I would recommend to require cmake 2.6.3. Release 2.6 brought a
> lot of improvements and new features (from simple ones like more
> Find-modules, functions additionally to macros, cross compiling, much more).
> KDE 4.2, released January this year, requires this version, so most/many
> current Linux distributions should have this version now (but maybe not as
> much as 2.4.5).
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Alex
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