Michael Schwingen wrote:
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>   
>> I am not a CMake expert, but this is a decent first draft.  I believe
>> it will be possible to get to a point where you can build openocd just
>> with simple tools on Windows, no need for CYGWIN or even a bash shell
>> script.    These scripts have been tested on Linux with a variety of
>> cable types.
>>
>> They have not been tested on Windows.  Windows support may need a
>> little more work, 1 hour or at most.  I will ask somebody that works
>> with Windows to do that for their own benefit please.  I have carried
>> the water pretty far here, and the Windows folks can certainly go the
>> extra 3 feet.
>>
>> Start by installing the patch, and then reading about "out of source
>> builds" in the above URL, repeated here again:
>>
>>
>>    http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>>     
> Looks good to me - I never got warm with autotools, so this looks like
> an improvement to me.
>
> I really like that the cmake-generated Makefile runs the whole build
> across all directories in one make process, which works better on SMP
> systems (I just did a test with "make -j" and got >20 compiler jobs
> running in parallel, across all directories - traditional recursive
> makefiles tend to scale bad on systems with >2 CPUs).
>
> Since it looks like the cmake support does not touch much of the
> existing files, I think adding it to SVN should do no harm.
>
> cu
> Michael
>   


There are "wanna bes" and then there are success stories.  CMake is a 
success story.

Thanks for your feedback to the list, that seems to be what is required 
right now.


Dick


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