Re: [q-lang-users] Good news, everyone!

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> I agree that the autotools can be a PITA, but what other solution is
> there to ease cross-platform building? I know about scons, but IMHO it
> still needs time to mature, and it would also be a lots of work to port
> all of Q over to a new build system.

Chicken is migrating to CMake, and in fact no longer supports autotools
for Windows builds (except Cygwin, which can go either way).  CMake is
also capable of generating Microsoft Visual C++ projects, which is a
nice feature.  CMake also works fine on Unixoid systems.

CMake is also considerably faster, because it figures out only what
the application need to figure out and then only once.  The current Q
autotools build is horribly slow because there are so many "./configure"
runs, all of which essentially discover the same thing.

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