On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, RE lesgoe via curl-library wrote:
- nmake for building with visual studio (winbuild/)
- configure for msys/mingw style builds
- cmake for the rest
- (mingw makefiles for the adventureous, but they remain mostly undocumented)
If there is going to be any sort of consolidation effort, it should be to
solely maintain a set of CMakefiles.
That seems like a reasonable long term goal, yes. At this moment in time
however, I don't feel that we have the buy-in from all Visual Studio users to
add cmake as a build-time requirement.
Switching from project files to winbuild at least doesn't add any new
pre-requisites, making it a smaller and probably easier to make step for now.
I don't want to rock the boat too much in a single blow, but rather have a
transition.
Now, that won't be possible at the moment with all the limitations
of the existing CMake code.
https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.cmake#L21-L36
Right, but the winbuild and visual studio project files also have their set of
limitations and I'm not sure the cmake ones are "worse"...
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