hi Kohei,
On 29/09/2023 03:16, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
Now, it's my understanding that we still don't support use of CMake to
build our external libraries. My question is, what do people think of
adding support for CMake in our build system? Would that be too much
effort and not worth it, or would it be worthwhile to add support for
it, but so far it has not been anybody's priority, or ... ?
Please let me know what your opinions are.
so as far as i remember, the reason why CMake isn't required currently
is mainly that nobody so far wanted to add it as yet another build
dependency that people have to install - there isn't anything inherently
wrong with the idea and it could be called from makefiles just like
other external build systems.
in some cases, there are specific problems with particular external
project's CMakefiles - looking at poppler, which has various parameters
to disable external library dependencies, some of which apparently do
not work, so the CMake-generated config headers require patching.
