John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-02 🗒️ Summary of this message: CMake is a ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-07-02
🗒️ Summary of this message: CMake is a better choice than autotools as a build system due to its ability to generate native build scripts for multiple platforms, clearer syntax, and faster speed.
📝 Original message: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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