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From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change?
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:13:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0ssbonoe9cukoeyfTHykPPQZH+u=-v=29qMfCp-BKJB9+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNQ0stvozeQAVFkduY7Ph5EXy8ayYwiu4T+6Oz1RwjgiDnBeA@mail.gmail.com>

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Also important: it supports cross compiling:

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling

JS

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:29 AM, John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead of
> cmake?
>
> - CMake generates native build scripts for Make (all platforms), XCode,
> Visual Studio. Autoconf only does Make.
>
> - CMake has a clearer syntax, m4/autotools is very convoluted
>
> - CMake is very fast
>
> - CMake is supported natively in Qt Creator in the QT SDK, and is used by
> many other KDE/QT as well as other open source applications. Many people
> discourage the use of autotools for new projects.
>
> A CMake build system for bitcoin is already integrated into rpcminer,
> available here:
>
> http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/w/puddinpop-bitcoin-pool.git/tree
>
> JS
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-02  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-02  7:29 [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change? John Smith
2011-07-02  8:13 ` John Smith [this message]
2011-07-02 11:30   ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-02 11:49     ` John Smith
2011-07-02 14:50 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-02 16:50   ` John Smith
2011-07-02 16:55     ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-02 17:05     ` Douglas Huff
     [not found]       ` <CAJNQ0su0jtaFz6abS+H24d7dqKoWkugct1yQLeVyXTgr0rkXXA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-02 17:31         ` John Smith
2011-07-02 17:45           ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-02 18:03             ` John Smith
2011-07-02 18:12               ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-03 10:44 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07  8:49   ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07 16:51     ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-07 17:40     ` John Smith

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