On 07.12.10 14:31:56, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Dean <aquawic...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I've been using CMAKE for a few years now and I absolutley LOVE it. > > It makes my life as a programmer so much easier to be able to generate > > project files on any platform. > > > > What hurts is doing the reverse. I can't count how many hours I've spent > > converting Solutions, Projects and Makefiles into CmakeLists files. > > > > I think if CMAKE could generate CMakeLists files from Solutions, Projects > > and Makefiles, it would be the ULTIMATE make system. > > Just think. Any time you run into some sorcecode that does not have a > > CMakeFile, you could generate it from the Makefile or Project. > > > > I can't imagine any programmer that would not love that ability. I think it > > would be something great to add to CMAKE. > > What are everyones thoughts on that? > > > > I would love to see a working QMake to CMake converter. And I mean one > that works for complicated QMake projects not just a simple executable > with a few headers and a few source files.
If I recollect my lessons in computer-theory correctly from university, then this is not possible for the "general case". The problem is that QMake's language is very close to a general-purpose programming language, in particular it supports loops and conditions. This (again IIRC) makes it impossible for a program to decide wether two qmake projects or a qmake and a cmake project are semantically equal. It might be possible to do a "bit-by-bit" conversion of qmake project files to cmake, but I doubt the resulting cmake project is very useful except for pure building. Maintaining those cmake-files is not going to be easy or fun, nor would they match what a cmake developer would write if he set up stuff "from scratch" for cmake to build the project. And without the goal of switching from qmake to cmake, I don't see any point in doing a conversion in the first place - after all qmake can build the project on all interesting platforms already (else it would've been replaced). And that doesn't even consider a configure-script which I think most larger qmake projects have (like Qt itself). Andreas -- You are as I am with You. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
