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General discussions / Developing with CMake
« on: October 09, 2019, 01:27:04 pm »
Hello everyone,,
I have a rather general question concerning CMake. I often hear it simplifies things, for developers as well as for users. I understand, that when CMake is correctly configured, it can be used for a large amount of compilers and IDEs.
But until one can configure it correctly to support a wide range of compilers, it seems to be a real pain, especially in the beginning. I've been surprised a little bit by the big amount of script and config files required for CMake just to generate SFML. Besides, a lot of cases (e.g. VS or g++) are still differentiated manually, while CMake promises to relieve developers of exactly this process. The recent quotation mark issue shows me that there are still several things that don't work as expected (maybe I should inform the CMake team about that).
I have considered using CMake to build own libraries in the future, but at the moment I'm rather sceptical. Also I would have to learn the CMake script language...
What is your experience (Laurent and other people using CMake to build own projects)?
I have a rather general question concerning CMake. I often hear it simplifies things, for developers as well as for users. I understand, that when CMake is correctly configured, it can be used for a large amount of compilers and IDEs.
But until one can configure it correctly to support a wide range of compilers, it seems to be a real pain, especially in the beginning. I've been surprised a little bit by the big amount of script and config files required for CMake just to generate SFML. Besides, a lot of cases (e.g. VS or g++) are still differentiated manually, while CMake promises to relieve developers of exactly this process. The recent quotation mark issue shows me that there are still several things that don't work as expected (maybe I should inform the CMake team about that).
I have considered using CMake to build own libraries in the future, but at the moment I'm rather sceptical. Also I would have to learn the CMake script language...
What is your experience (Laurent and other people using CMake to build own projects)?