Re: [Doxygen-develop] Problem with default values

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

Hi Robert,

On Jun 6, 2013, at 18:33 , Robert Dailey <rcd...@gm...> wrote:

> +1 to CMake. I'm pretty good with CMake so I'm willing to help produce
> the build system if there is interest.

There are quite some custom steps in doxygen's build, but you can migrate the build to CMake
I'm interested. 

> 2013 at 6:46 PM, Philipp Moeller
> <phi...@ge...> wrote:
>> Dimitri van Heesch <do...@gm...> writes:
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 22:45 , Philipp Moeller <phi...@ge...> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> NB: To add a config variable you need to add it to the config.xml file
>>>> and not to the configoptions.cpp file. Don't forget to rerun
>>>> configgen.py. It is really unfortunate that the file is commited and not
>>>> generated during the build process.
>>> 
>>> This is limitation of the Windows build. When using ./configure & make on
>>> Linux/MacOSX/Cygwin there is a build rule to trigger a regeneration whenever
>>> config.xml changes.
>> 
>> This is odd. It is possible to have MSBuild Tasks run an external
>> executable depending on some resource and some platform-independent
>> build tools also support generating that kind of solution file. Maybe
>> its time to switch to CMake?

It is not that it is not possible. It just hasn't been implemented. 
Note that I do almost no development on Windows myself, I only build and test 
the Windows binaries just before a release, so for me is not much of an issue.

Regards,
  Dimitri