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From: Richard Shaw <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Freetel-codec2] Any interest in cmake build system?
To: Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before making the cmake build the standard approach, I think it's
> important to make sure that it can do the things autoconf can do,
> specifically:
>
> detection of features vs OS, so that it will build on a new OS which
> can work based on feature tests
>
I need some clarification here but cmake does detect what system/os it's
running on, as well as the compiler (MSVC, gnu C/C++, etc.).
cross compiling (using standard interfaces, so that packaging systems
> that want to cross compile don't have to special case codec2)
>
I have not tried this myself but google provides many results including:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling
> OBJDIR builds (the equivalent of running configure from a directory
> other than the sources, resulting in not writing to the source
> directory at all)
>
Out of source builds are preferred in cmake already.
make dist
>
Although it's not an internal function, cmake can do this with a few lines
of code:
http://agateau.com/2009/08/09/cmake-and-make-dist-the-simple-version/
> make distcheck (which involves an OBJDIR build on the unpacked
> distribution tarball)
>
Not a builtin but I found several references to 3rd party modules...
> I'm not clear on cmake details, but I have the impression that not all
> the above is supported.
Perhaps not but I think most of the issues can be overcomed.
Thanks,
Richard
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