From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail•com>
To: Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change?
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 18:03:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0sv4i+wTQeGBmmfMpUL-mUB2a6KX1NddF2K4Lecs4ofuAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65026C81-A96E-490A-90D2-794A10C2A680@jrbobdobbs.org>
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs•org> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:31 PM, John Smith wrote:
> > So, what about native build script generation for other platforms?
> autotools can only generate makefiles (with at least two intermediate code
> generation steps), which is quite limited.
>
> This would be true if gmake didn't build/run basically everywhere; but, it
> does.
>
It doesn't for the native build systems on at least Windows and OSX. Yes,
you can get gmake to run, but it's a hack.
> I would say that's actually a mark against cmake. If you need a gui to
> select build options because your cli doesn't have proper help output
> something is wrong.
>
You don't need to use the UI. It's just a convenience. Command line can
simply be used if you want.
> If you're willing to setup and maintain a cmake build environment I
> wouldn't say it should be rejected outright. Speculating about it without an
> implementation to compare seems like a waste of time.
>
As I said in my opening post, there *is* a cmake build system implemented
for bitcoin.
JS
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-02 7:29 John Smith
2011-07-02 8:13 ` John Smith
2011-07-02 11:30 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-02 11:49 ` John Smith
2011-07-02 14:50 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-02 16:50 ` John Smith
2011-07-02 16:55 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-02 17:05 ` Douglas Huff
[not found] ` <CAJNQ0su0jtaFz6abS+H24d7dqKoWkugct1yQLeVyXTgr0rkXXA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-02 17:31 ` John Smith
2011-07-02 17:45 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-02 18:03 ` John Smith [this message]
2011-07-02 18:12 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-03 10:44 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07 8:49 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07 16:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-07 17:40 ` John Smith
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