[nanomsg] Re: started on CMake unification
- From: Sergei Nikulov <sergey.nikulov@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:43:59 +0300
2015-03-24 5:30 GMT+03:00 Garrett D'Amore <garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> So some of you may already know some of this.
>
> It turns out that I’ve started the work to move libnanomsg away from
> autotools to just using cmake for building. (And can I say that while the
> cmake configs are nice, the documentation for cmake is atrocious!)
>
> The motivation here is to get to a single build system that drives
> everything. autotools simply cannot service the entire community, as it
> needs a mostly unix-like environment to run in. It has dependencies on GNU
> m4, and a reasonable bash-like shell. This sort of precludes operation on
> Windows.
>
> cmake can build Makefiles for all systems that I know about. It generates
> Makefiles on UNIX systems, but also can do project files for various IDEs
> (MSVC, Xcode, etc.)
>
> Frankly, libnanomsg’s tests for various features have some bugs, and that
> needs work. I’m loathe to work in auto*. At the time, I also didn’t
> realize we had a functional “make check” target (make test isn’t a
> functional target) in autotools. So the way tests get executed is
> different on different platforms too. Argh. Anyway….
>
> Upshot is I’ve spent some time, and done most of the work — from what I
> can tell this generates (at least on my MacOS X and illumos systems)
> correct builds of nanomsg. The work is in my own branch here:
>
> https://github.com/gdamore/nanomsg/tree/cmake
>
Perhaps you've should start from reviewing old issues.
For example https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg/issues/210
I've already suggest to pull my branch cmake_build from
https://github.com/snikulov/nanomsg
Just waiting for response from Martin.
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Best Regards,
Sergei Nikulov
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