Hi, The current Kicad build cmake code is a man-made horror beyond my comprehension. It's clearly been accreted over the years without a lot of understanding of what cmake can do. Admittedly cmake itself is the cause of most of the horror, but we can do better.
I'm no cmake expert, but a few days of fixing the code has yielded some decent improvements. I expect more significant modularization changes to happen as well as the dependency graph is made more explicit. There's a lot of zombie code being carried in the Kicad repo for unclear gain, or for reasons that no longer apply in 2023. Having to use kicad-mac-builder is also another pain to get kicad building on a Mac, and it is gating my ability to improve Kicad itself. It works, but isn't actually needed if the cmake is written correctly. This also helps other systems since fewer stuff is added globally, and there's less system-specific code in Kicad itself. I'll also look into rebuilding the install/bundle/app code, as that's its own mess. Kicad should not be this difficult to package. Nimish -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/490e5cea-ff23-4b23-948f-62e88876a916n%40kicad.org.
