27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
11:56 a.m.
"Andrew Maclean" <a.maclean@cas.edu.au> writes:
Do you feel like doing one for CMake - it would be a lot more useful in that it is cross-platform (*nix, Macs, QNX-Neutrino, Windows) and also generates the requisite IDE files eg. KDevelop3, Borland, Microsoft VC ?
I was afraid someone might ask that. There's a slippery slope here: we don't want to have to support N build systems for each of M libraries, which is where we were before Boost.Build. Boost.Build turns an NxM problem into an N+M problem. Ideally, Boost.Build could generate all these other build system formats (or at least, generate CMake format and let it do the rest). Patches welcome, as always. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com