On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs.org> wrote:

On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:31 PM, John Smith wrote:
> So, what about native build script generation for other platforms? autotools can only generate makefiles (with at least two intermediate code generation steps), which is quite limited.

This would be true if gmake didn't build/run basically everywhere; but, it does.

It doesn't for the native build systems on at least Windows and OSX. Yes, you can get gmake to run, but it's a hack.

I would say that's actually a mark against cmake. If you need a gui to select build options because your cli doesn't have proper help output something is wrong.

You don't need to use the UI. It's just a convenience. Command line can simply be used if you want.

If you're willing to setup and maintain a cmake build environment I wouldn't say it should be rejected outright. Speculating about it without an implementation to compare seems like a waste of time.

As I said in my opening post, there *is* a cmake build system implemented for bitcoin.

JS