On Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 16:34:12 UTC, David wrote:
Using make with D works great, also there is cmake for D. But
try to use
two tools (d buildscript and let's say cmake) on windows. You
have to
force the user to either install mingw/cygwin or cmake/make and
VS
(cmake can only generate for mingw-make and VS not dmc). Users
will end
up not using it.
stb_image e.g. is in no "OS-Package" (which also don't exist
for windows)
of course makefiles work, it's just hated by so many
programmers...
for windows there is 99% chance that already compiled
executables/libraries exists.
and if some project doesn't have binaries for windows, it's
maintainers fault, not windows. just imagine yourself compiling
for example Qt or chrome on single core 2Ghz machine with 1gb ram
because there is no compiled binaries, would you be happy after
that?
but... we already going to OT, i don't want to start holy wars
about build systems.
