Hi Christoph, On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:01 AM Christoph Grüninger <f...@grueninger.de> wrote:
> Hi Magnus, > > for sure, I am going to do CMake cheerleading. > > I think OpenJDK would profit from a change to CMake: > > 1. Less tools required for building: CMake + gmake/Ninja/msbuild/Xcode > instead of Autotools and all the related Linux/Unix tools, that are > somewhat alien to Windows and OS X. Visual Studio even provides its own > CMake. > Note that CMake is missing on a number of proprietary Unices (AIX, HPUX) whereas Autotools are universally available and just work; on Windows via Cygwin, on Mac via Fink/homebrew to Mac. So I think the argument is actually the reverse. > > 2. More choices to actually build the project: Use integrated build > tools of IDEs (Visual Studio, Xcode) or use Ninja, which is faster than > gmake > > Is gmake really where we lose time? Did you analyze this or is this just an assumption? I would have thought it's things like single threaded jmod, jlink, and subprocess spawning. Cheers, Thomas
