Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] CMake to get support for more platforms

[M G. <aur...@gm...>]

Hi,

I personally am interested am interested in alternatives to autotools; the
main problem in this case, i guess, is this home-brew framework that is
quite uncommon; depending on this for STK is probably not a good idea

-- Auria

2009/9/11 Hendrik Dark <hen...@we...>

> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag 11 September 2009 12:04:24 schrieb Robert Schuster:
> > It would be good if you enforce out-of-tree builds for cmake
> > builds.
> That is already done. ;)
> I personally use <project-root>/build/<platform>/
>
> I have not commited my CMake files for some reasons:
> 1) I have no svn account to commit anything at all
> 2) My CMakeLists.txt files are based/depend on a CMake framework I am
> writing.
> 3) The framework is pre-alpha version.
> 4) I'm busy.
>
> 1) ... and do not want to post all that stuff  on mailing list.
>
> 2) I intend to use this framework in other projects too, which leads to the
> problem that I would have to commit every change to the framework to ever
> project that uses this framework. I don't think introducing an new
> dependency
> to stk is good idea either. So I'm not sure what to do.
>
>
> 3) Before anyone asks why a CMake framework at all. Well, there is a lot of
> CMake code written again and again that can be avoided (especially when it
> comes to find the libraries and headers an application depends on). One can
> make some libaries depend on a certain system.
> The following command makes CMake to look for a library called winmm only
> on
> Windows.
> smart_add_libraries(NAMES "winmm" PLATFORMS "WIN")
> The framework offers some hacks to get named parameters like in CMake's
> find_library command which makes it very comfortable to script your own
> helper
> functions as you can make more than one parameter optional, the order of
> parameters irrelevant and enforce a parameter to have a certain type (only
> pseudo types String, Number or Boolean) or to be a list of one of these
> types.
>
> At the moment this framework is a work in progress. A lot of things still
> need
> to be implemented. Others stuff needs some cleaner code and bug fixes and I
> have to improve the documentation.
>
> 4) I'm quite busy at the moment so I cannot improve the CMake stuff as fast
> as
> I want. Depends on the stk developers if they want to include that early
> version of my CMake files in stk. At least on my system everything works
> and I
> configure and compile stk with CMake since about a month now.
>
> Cheers,
> darkh
>
>
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