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Re: Build using CMake

From: Pierre Joye <pierre.php_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:14:06 +0100

hi,

I would go with CMake and autoconf. Both cover all possible platforms.

Cheers,

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>
>> Having this CMake build scripts doesn't prevent having the hand written
>> nmake makefiles as well. This would allow to build curl without using CMake
>> for those who doesn't want to use it. In the future we could add boost.build
>> scripts so that people used to this build system could build this way.
>
> I think we shouldn't have to add support for every imaginable build system
> just because they exist. They all require maintenance (and we already have
> problem to maintain the non-configure builds) and we risk "drowning" in
> options.
>
> Or would boost.build add anything in particular that cmake won't? (I've not
> used either one.)
>
> --
>
>  / daniel.haxx.se
>

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Pierre
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Received on 2009-03-26