Friday, January 30, 2004

CMake

From Eric Sink's blog:

"One of the toughest parts of cross-platform development is the build system.  No matter how clean and portable your C code is, getting the tree to build on multiple platforms is a whole different problem.

One solution I have used in the past is to do a completely Unix-centric build system with bash and make, using cygwin to run it under Windows.  This works very well, except that it really annoys the folks who prefer Visual Studio project files.

[...]

This week I discovered a nifty tool I had never seen before.  It's called CMake, and it's the build system used for Kitware's Visualization Toolkit.  I've seen lots of alternatives to 'make', but this tool is surprisingly different and deeply neato."

 

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