On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Michael Sørensen Loft <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frans Meulenbroeks [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 17. marts 2009 18:23
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Wt-interest] Cross compiling WT for ARM
>>
>>
>> Hm. I ported the latest version of Wt to openembedded.
>> FileToString is indeed a pain, but too much cmake-ism's also
>> tend to make things less portable.
>>
>> FM (who is not really a big fan of cmake :-) )
>>
>
> I'm not a fan of cmake either. Actually I gave up on using CMake to 
> crosscompile Wt and created a perl script that > modifies the source code 
> structure and makes me able to build Wt using the same GNU Make scripts I use 
> for the
> rest of our applications. I also change the file extentions to .cpp and .hpp, 
> because I want autocompletion in my
> editor and it does not know how to parse extentionless header files and .C 
> files, which are really C++ files. But it
> requires a lot of perl one-liners and some maintenance :(

I, on the other hand, think exactly the opposite: CMake is great for
cross-platform and multiplatform development (my job is porting
software: Windows <---> Linux, Visual C++ <---> gcc <---> Borland C++,
etc).

> I've often wondered why the Wt source has such strange file extentions.

The .C extension is not that common for C++ but Wt is not the only
project I've seen using it

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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