Re: [simspark-devel] CMake and Autotools support

[Mahdi <zig...@gm...>]

Hi Hedayat

  Thanks a lot! Now our simulator has a very good multi platform build
system. But there is one part of the build system, which currently not
exists, the uninstallation part. I know that cmake does not support
installation as a main build system feature as making and installation,
cause I am porting ZigoratAssistant's build system to cmake too. But, this
is a part which I think can not be left undone. Do you think you can manage
to provide the feature?

Thanks for your help ;)

Cheers
Mahdi

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah <hed...@ai...>wrote:

>  Hi again!
>
> I've almost finished adding CMake support to our projects in SVN. It needs
> testing on systems with different configurations, but the needed changes
> would not be much. So, it seems that removing autotools support will not
> hurt the project itself.
>
>
>  First, from now on please consider CMake as the primary build system, and
> use it instead of auto-tools yourselves, and report any problems you have
> (and possibly fix them).
>
>
>  Second, sooner or later we are going to drop auto-tools support. I think
> there are 2 reasonable options (you can add new ones though): 1. removing
> autotools support now (before releasing a new version) or 2. maintaining
> autotools support until the next release of the simulator and dropping the
> support after that.
>
> I'm still not sure if the second option have any advantages. Please let us
> know what you think about it.
>
>
>  Finally, it would be nice if you can test our CMake build system on Mac
> OSX and Windows,  and help us to improve our CMake support so the we can use
> cmake for all platforms and not using any other build systems for that
> purpose (like VS project files).
>
> Also, CPack (a part of cmake suit) supports generating installers for those
> systems (on Windows, it support NSIS installer). It'll enable us to create
> binary installers easily. I'll try to improve our support for those systems,
> but it needs testing specially on Mac OSX as I'm not much familiar with it
> and I don't have access to one of those. (It seems that CPack supports
> creating RPMs and DEBs too, but I've not investigated  them yet.)
>
>
>  Thanks for your support,
>
> Hedayat
>
>
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