Re: [simspark-devel] CMake and Autotools support

[Sander v. D. <sgv...@gm...>]

Hey all,

We encountered a small issue with using cmake. As defined in CMakeLists.txt,
the minimum required version is 2.6. However, on some systems we have 2.4,
which is the version used in Ubuntu 8.04. Since this is the latest Long Term
Support version I can imagine more people stick to this version. I am not
familir with cmake at all besides the use for simspark, but is there some
functionality that we rely on that is not in version 2.4. Or can we perhaps
just set the required version to 2.4 so it can be used on more systems?

Cheers,
Sander

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM, 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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