Re: CMake, was Re: [PATCH 09/11] Add MSVC porting header files.

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Johannes
Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>
>> What about having a CMake build system, which would work on every
>> platform (including cross-compiling), and would produce an appropriate
>> config.h and makefiles/vcproj/Eclipse projects/XCode projects/whatever
>> is fit for each platform? If it's OK to include such a build system
>> upstream, I'm volunteering to implement it.
>
> And reap in another dependency?
>
> First Python, then CMake, what tomorrow?  Is it the month of adding
> dependencies?

I'd say it's the month of getting problems solved.

CMake would make git a lot easier to build on Windows, particularly
with Visual C++. Replace autotools with CMake and suddenly you need to
maintain a single build system for every platform and compiler git
supports/will support. That's a sound advantage to me.

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