Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-31 Thread James Mansion
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Quite so. CMake outputs MSVC Project files, as I understand it. If you know of another cross-platform build tool that will do that then speak up. I think the wxWidgets team have one, and I think scons has some support for doing that, though I haven't tried that part of

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
Gregory Stark wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > >> Jonah H. Harris wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: But of course those are just as straightforward in autoconf. It's the not-straightforward stuff that's going to be a PITA to translate. >>> As much as I disli

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gregory Stark wrote: We could use autoconf on win32 using cygwin utilities for things like sh and awk. Just because we use those tools doesn't mean we have to use a cygwin compiler or linker to actually do the build. Making Cygwin a build time requirement for using MSVC is something we s

Re: [HACKERS] About CMake

2008-12-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian writes: > Jonah H. Harris wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> > But of course those are just as straightforward in autoconf. It's >> > the not-straightforward stuff that's going to be a PITA to translate. >> >> As much as I dislike autotools, I really d