Re: CMake, was Re: [PATCH 09/11] Add MSVC porting header files.

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Reece Dunn<msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Realistically, you'd need CMake for Windows/msvc and autotools for
> POSIX systems. I know that CMake is supported on POSIX, but not
> everyone has access to it. Poppler, for example, has this dual build
> system to support Windows as well as other systems (that, and it has
> KDE4 bindings, so CMake is pretty much a given).

It's not exactly like that. It would be more accurate to say "if you
have POSIX, CMake will work; if you don't have POSIX, it may or may
not work".

I'd say 99% of git users run git on a platform which supports enough
POSIX to build CMake.

Please note if you are cross-compiling git, you need CMake (hence
POSIX) on the platform you are cross-compiling on (the "host
platform"), not on the platform you are cross-compiling for (the
"target platform").

> For CMake to work, it would need to support building all of git
> (including the man, html and pdf documents from the asciidoc sources),
> the localisation support and the optional packages (OpenSSL, CURL). I
> know that KDE uses CMake, so this should all be possible.

All possible. Plus using CMake would make easier to build installers
(NSIS, WiX, .deb, .rpm, etc), submit the results of the tests to a
dashboard ( http://my.cdash.org/ ), and more.

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