Plans to move the build system to CMake?

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Apr 1 08:20:03 PDT 2013


On Apr 1, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:

> People,
> 
> I`m new to this list, and if this is already a discussed topic, please don`t hit me. :)
> 
> Since the plan is to use Qt on interface instead of GTK, I wonder if in this branch the build system could be changed to CMake ( and I`m willing to do that if that`s the case ). 
> 
> CMake has some advantages over Makefiles ( specially being able to compile with different compilers that doesn`t supports *nix based makefiles, like MSVC compiller ) and also has a deep integration with Qt, understanding the moc files generated by the qt-preprocessor and it`s widely used.

I think Subsurface is a small enough project to not need a complex build system. I have been proven wrong before, but my instinctive reaction is "not so likely".

/D


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