Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Constantine Shulyupin ( http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ ) about "CMake - the Nifty Build and Configuration System" - on Sunday 25-October-2009 (slightly less than a week from now).
The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber Maths&CS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your calendars. More information can be found at: * http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ * http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_25_October_2009 With any other problems, feel free to contact me: http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ Hopefully Constantine will be able to give a re-run of this presentation on Haifux and other possible venues. Abstract: --------- You can see what we have so far here: http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/CMake/ We are also planning to re-use some CMake presentations and material that we found online. In any case, here's an abstract: {{{{{{{{{{{ CMake - cross platform make. - configure the software build process and generate makefiles (or IDE project files) automatically on many systems. - Advantages over GNU Autotools. - Smaller archive files and downloads (no huge "configure", "configure.in"/"configure.ac", Makefile.am, Makefile.in, etc.) - Faster configurations (using the CMake command). - no excessive forking and running processes in CMake. - make/build runs faster (due to no "libtool" commands). - much easier to maintain and tends to break less than Autoconf's m4 macros generating /bin/sh code, with many other tools in between. Show: - http://www.seul.org/docs/autotut/figure1.png - Better Microsoft Windows support: - can prepare Windows NSIS packages out-of-the-box. - Its licence is mod-BSDL instead of Autotools' GPL. }}}}}}}}}} CMake may still have some disadvantages over GNU Autotools (a.k.a: GNU Autohell), but we like it. ---------- Next on our agenda is starting the "Welcome-to-FOSS" series: http://welcome.foss.org.il/2009/ We're looking for volunteer presenters and backup presenters. Currently our agenda is here: http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Welcome_to_FOSS_-_2009 We are always looking for presentations on interesting topics. If you have an interesting idea for a talk, feel free to contact us and we'll co-ordinate a date. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
