On Friday 16 April 2010 05:10:25 pm Bill Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Treat ([email protected]) suggested that I join this list to talk about > CMake as an option for a unified cross platform build solution. My name > is Bill Hoffman. I am the lead CMake developer. My company Kitware > created and supports CMake. I think CMake would have a lot to offer the > WebKit developers. > > If you are not familiar with CMake, I did a google tech talk in December > which can be found here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata > > Another article about how KDE switched to CMake can be found here: > "Why the KDE project switched to CMake -- and how" > http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/ > > If you are interested in moving to CMake, I would be interested in > helping. If you have any questions about CMake, fire away! > > Thanks. > > -Bill
I asked Bill to introduce himself here because I think CMake represents the best hope for WebKit to find a way out of the current build system proliferation we are experiencing. Of the meta-buildsystems in existence I think CMake is by far the most powerful and mature. CMake is by far the most widespread and supported. It is already used successfully by Open Source projects of a comparable scope to WebKit and with similar cross-platform needs: LLVM, KDE, Boost. I know that WebKit already has GYP and QMake meta-buildsystems, but to my knowledge both are inferior to CMake. In fact, I do not think CMake is lacking in any important way to the features of GYP. What's more, the WebKit project has already had a CMake based buildsystem. This is what the 'Unity' nascent QtWebkit port used originally. I think we should re-introduce it and seriously consider using CMake as a cross-platform solution to our build system proliferation issues. I highly encourage you all to view the google tech talk above as it gives a great introduction to CMake. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
