Cmake support - Githubissues

smarter commented 13 years ago

This request contains some commits from previous pull-request: https://github.com/openj/core/pull/13

This adds support for the CMake build system, including install support in (hopefully) correct paths on all platforms. See README.cmake for more informations.

lemenkov commented 13 years ago

CMake has many advantages over good old autotools, indeed. However there are two major drawbacks which should be considered seriously:

Portability. Autotools itself are much more polished in terms of support for different OS and architectures.
Self-sufficiency. Autotools itself requires only for regenerating configure and the rest of build-scripts, while CMake is requires itself to be installed even just for building application. This could be an issue for less popular arches and systems (s390x, AIX, sparc, arm, different BSD variants, etc).

As I already said this is not an issue for almost all popular arches. However I would really appreciate if this patch won't touch J sources itself - just add new files and templates.

effbiae commented 13 years ago

good, good. please have a look at https://github.com/openj/core/issues (issues 16, 17, 18 and 19) and add your vote. (if you haven't already)

openj / core

Cmake support #14