-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Seefeld Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:08 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake
Sohail Somani wrote:
* Must be able to directly build, test, run commands, etc. without having to inject the generation of external build files into the process.
Actually I'm surprised that wasn't the first response to that email. Maybe CMake can directly build, but I haven't seen it.
I'm not sure I understand the requirement.
Are you saying the build system must not generate any intermediate files ? What do you mean by 'direct build' ? Why would you care at all about intermediate files ?
Not a Cmake guru, but as I understand it you have to configure the build via cmake files which then generates makefiles native for that platform. So that means for an x-platform developer, you have to use gnu/sun/aix/hp/make/visual studio which (imho) negates the whole point of an x-platform build tool. Of course, that is just my view and I like to use one tool well everywhere (preferably within my os emacs). Sohail