hello, Thank you for your replies.
Sewwandi On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1 March 2014 22:06, Sewwandi Wijayaratna > <[email protected]> wrote: > > hello, > > > > It seems building Subsurface on Windows requires some considerable > effort. > > So I think it would be useful if we have a single build system which will > > support larger number of UNIX platforms and Windows. > > > > Do you think writing a CMake based build system for Subsurface is a good > > idea ? Do you accept it as a possible gsoc idea for 2014 ? In that case I > > would like to write a proposal for it. Please let me know your comments > on > > this. > > > > the problems on Windows emit mainly from the lack of a common package > manager (obtaining libxml2-dev etc..) and a bogus pkg-config binaries. > if CMake can solve these problems that won't be a bad idea, but i > doubt it will. > > on the other hand the project already depends on Qt and qmake has the > same portability as a build system. technically the native Windows > build *does* use qmake the same way it's used on Unix based OS. > > lubomir > -- >
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