Re: [Cppcms-users] cppcms build problems

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

Hello,

> I see that you use cmake for boost.locale - are you
> planning to use it for
> cppcms too?

Unfortunatly I think I would have to. There is no other
way to support MSVC, I may want to in future.

> - separate build directory

No problems to do this with autotools as well.

To be honest... For me cmake is far behind autotools.
It misses lots of features:

-  Even simple and frequent things like "AC_SEARCH_LIBS",
   AC_TRY_COMPILE become very inconvinient.
-  Support of static/shared builds, is very unfriendly. 
-  Switching compilers works very bad
-  Documentation total crap, seriously.
-  Shared Objects versioning is quite bad and non standard
-  Unintall support is none.

I used CMake for Boost.Locale just because I needed MSVC support.
If libtool would support MSVC I would not think twice

I still making a usability test of CMake, because there are
lots of non-trivial things I may want to do.

CMake may be good for Windows programming but it does not fit
well in Unix world too good -- and this is my primary target
platform.

In any case I'm still checking if CMake fits my needs at all.

Bottom line, if you do not care about Windows, autotools
still are best.

Artyom