On 11/10/2012 23:39, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
> On 11/10/12, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2012/11/10 Ozkan Sezer <[email protected]>
>>
>>> On 11/10/12, Luis Lavena <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Ruben Van Boxem
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the crazy idea to help with ironCrate.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have written a small CMakeLists.txt file to get automated
>>>>> compilation
>>>>> working (I know you guys favor autotools, I don't). I am running into
>>>>> some
>>>>> issues building the source from the get-go.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think CMake is already the proposed solution:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/devel%20crt%20licensing,%20Coding-style,%20and%20more
>>>>
>>>> As CMake provides the generation of MinGW/MSYS makefiles and Visual
>>>> Studio project files, which is the goal of ironCrate (be compatible
>>>> with both compilers)
>>>>
>>>
>>> It still amazed why we are not using plain old makefiles.
>>> oh well..
>>>
>>>
>> Probably because you'd have to write three sets of makefiles: nmake, msys
>> make, and mingw32-make, which really is kinda silly...
>
> I don't think that composing different makefiles for mingw- and msys-
> versions of make would be necessary but yes one would be necessary
> for nmake. Two, or even three different makefiles I consider as fair price
> against dealing with complexities and/or extra dependencies of cmake
> or autotools.
>

Please, no cmake, even custom makefiles, shell scripts, Python scripts,
Perl scripts, just no cmake.

cmake is a maintenance nightmare with it's shell-but-not-shell syntax.




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