2011/2/8 Martin O'Brien <martin.matthew.obr...@gmail.com>: > While I too find myself sometimes wanting convenience scripts - some people > find the use of '-DENABLE_<whatever>=ON' instead of --enable-<whatever>' > foreign, for example - the problem with them, IMO, is that they're > impossible to make crossplatform without requiring the presence of some tool > - perl, python, bash, whatever - on each system in a location that can be > located pre-configure, which is exactly what using cmake gets you out of.
You can use CMake instead of perl, python etc... you write your CMake script and then propose to the user to run, something like: cmake -P easyBuild.cmake Many [portable] CMake commands are usable for that, mainly file( ...), execute_process, string, message. As an example I did propose in the past a CMake script which can be used to build a new CMake version (provided you already have one installed) with the following single line: cmake -P CMake-autobuild.cmake You can write a similar cross-platform script(s) for your users. It doesn't give you the possibility to use --enable but it's easy to use for your user and is definitely cross-platform. If some options have to be chosen by the users they can either edit the script or you may launch cmake-gui / ccmake at the end of the script in order to give a chance to the user to select the choices. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org
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