[CMake] makefile to CMakeLists.txt, possible?

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Thu Aug 19 09:50:16 EDT 2010


MySQL already builds with CMake, currently.

For example, search for cmake on this page:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connector-c-building.html


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/8/19 Mr Shore <shore.cloud at gmail.com>:
> > Actually it's not my projects, but the well known projects like MySQL,
> > Firefox and so on..
>
> CMakeifying this kind of project may not be an easy task, moreover my own
> opinion is that you shoudl ensure that the project stakeholder may be
> interested in
> this effort.
>
> In fact if they are not interested you may be wasting your time
> following the evolution
> of the officially supported build system.
>
> I do not think you'll find a useful converter tool for this kind of
> project and even if
> some tool may do say 80% of the work you'll end up diving in the
> current build system
> in order to manually do the remaining 20%.
>
> Why would you want to CMakeify Firefox or MySQL?
>
> --
> Erk
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