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From: | Thomas Chust |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] alternate build tools |
Date: | Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:42:10 -0000 |
User-agent: | Opera M2/8.02 (MacPPC, build 2148) |
Thomas Chust wrote:Am 03.10.2005, 15:47 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Brannan <address@hidden>:Aren't you being rather premature in your pronouncement? There's probably some way to do it, it probably just requires different output directories or something. It takes time to RTFM. I think you're not paying enough attention to a more basic point: Thomas got this thing actually working with ease in a weekend. That's highly encouraging. If debug versions really do have to be called *_d, so what? If it's otherwise an easy, reliable, high quality build system, that's a good tradeoff.[...]1. Note that I had to name the exe chicken_d. I could easily rename it in alater step, but the point is that CMake doesn't seem to easily supportcustom file names. Files will be named for the target plus the appropriateextension.2. Setting source file properties is a global operation where the last setwins. So I haven't found an easy way to combine both static and dynamiclinking. I even tried listing the source files twice and setting properties differently on each listing. The file sets seem to be global entities thatcan accept only one set of properties. [...]However promising CMake looked to me, this doesn't sound like a terribly well designed core of the system...[...]
Hello,I didn't want to offend anyone and I have probably posted a comment I would better have kept to myself. It's just that the part of the message I quoted really sounded like a severe limitation to me and that I would always have tried to get rid of limitations like that if I had been to design the build system.
On the other hand I perfectly agree with you that it sounds very good that the system could be brought up and building CHICKEN with little additional work.
I also didn't want to suggest that CMake would be a bad choice, just because it has some limitations -- every system has. Before making a decision which build system I actually like best in practice, I have to try them out, which I can't do thoroughly at the moment due to limited time resources.
Sorry for all the noise, Thomas
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