My company is Birdstep Technology, formerly Raima Corporation (http://www.birdstep.com/database) and the SDKs we create are embedded databases. One of our strengths is our support of many different platforms from Windows to the multiplicity of unix distros. We've been dealing with a hodge-podge of make systems to support these different environments, especially between Windows and the unix's and really want to find something we can standardize on!
We've been sending out our binaries with example code which had project files build for Windows. That was always a problem as different customers have different versions of Microsoft's compilers, so we'd tried including copies of project files for multiple versions or including only the earliest version so that it could be upgraded, and other things, but they have all been painful both for the customers and for us to maintain. So, with CMake able to easily generate a project file or nmake files, or whatever, it would be a huge benefit for us in our maintenance of this. However, there has been some push-back about requiring the customers to have cmake installed. Especially if we expect them to just install our product and then start compiling the examples to evaluate the product, we want there to be as few steps they need to take to get things working as possible. At this point, our best bet may be to just bundle cmake in with our product install to ensure that customers have the easiest possible experience. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:48 PM To: Kevin Tucker Subject: Re: [CMake] Removing cmake as a dependancy Kevin Tucker wrote: > Thanks Philip, > > > > I hadn't noticed the absolute paths yet. I can see that they would make > portability without cmake a problem. > > > > Is there any problem with including the cmake installer inside other > products? > > Just curious, what types of products are you talking about? -Bill _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
