On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mike Jackson <mike.jack...@bluequartz.net>wrote:
> <super_bias_section> > I particularly like CMake. I think it is simple to learn and does > what it is supposed to do without trying to give you the kitchen sick > in the process. > </super_bias_section> > > Having said that I have not tried to use Boost.build for anything else > besides building the Boost libraries and even then I find it hard to > figure out just how to do that.. > > There are lots of helpful people on the CMake mailing list > (www.cmake.org) that can help you get started with your project if > needed. With CMake you can generate many different IDE project files > (VS, Xcode, KDevelop, Eclipse CDT) or just plain Makefiles (Unix, > MSys, MinGW, Cygwin) and a few other native build systems that I am > not familiar with. CMake allows for introspection of the system or > cross-compiling to another system. It has a graphical front end if > that is your cup of tea or can be effectively run from the command > line. All CMake needs to run is a C++ compiler. Agreed with everything Mike said except that CMake doesn't need a C++ compiler, it also works fine with C, Java, and Fortran compilers. :) -- Philip Lowman
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