On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Denis Scherbakov <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > Apart from every compiler making this different (i. e. > > different > > parameters for each compilers), what are the difficulties > > you see for > > making this a first-class feature? My Windows coworkers > > demand this > > feature and I was thinking in implementing when I had a few > > spare time > > at work (read: October the soonest) > > I use CMake to compile a huge project for 7 OSes / 12 processors > architectures and I don't know a place outside Windows, where PCHs > are needed. CCache and Parallel Builds make wonders without touching > any single line of code in CMake. > > So if you use Windows, then a solution for Microsoft compiler has > already been submitted. > > I've been reading this newsgroup for a while and I notice that most > of the people complain that they miss some feature on Windows, but > completely forget that there are other cool OSes out there and CMake > stands for Crossplatform Make. This means that a feature must work on all > platforms and all supported compilers, not just on Microsoft ones. On a philosophical level, I really shouldn't be asking for this feature. Precompiled headers are mostly evil and considered an anti-pattern. It's actually pretty good that CMake makes it difficult to use :) So on that note, I think I'll be happy regardless of the outcome :)
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