GSoC project idea - CMake based build system for Subsurface and libdivecomputer

[Sewwandi Wijayaratna]

hello,

Thank you for your replies.

Sewwandi


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 1 March 2014 22:06, Sewwandi Wijayaratna
> <sewwandi.wijayaratna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > It seems building Subsurface on Windows requires some considerable
> effort.
> > So I think it would be useful if we have a single build system which will
> > support larger number of  UNIX platforms and Windows.
> >
> > Do you think writing a CMake based build system for Subsurface is a good
> > idea ? Do you accept it as a possible gsoc idea for 2014 ? In that case I
> > would like to write a proposal for it. Please let me know your comments
> on
> > this.
> >
>
> the problems on Windows emit mainly from the lack of a common package
> manager (obtaining libxml2-dev etc..) and a bogus pkg-config binaries.
> if CMake can solve these problems that won't be a bad idea, but i
> doubt it will.
>
> on the other hand the project already depends on Qt and qmake has the
> same portability as a build system. technically the native Windows
> build *does* use qmake the same way it's used on Unix based OS.
>
> lubomir
> --
>
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