[CMake] Re: diff to bakefiles

Christian Buhtz exsudat at gmx.de
Fri Sep 21 08:34:31 EDT 2007


Mathieu Malaterre schrieb:
> CMake is the most similar to Bakefile from these. It generates
> semi-native makefiles -- while the makefile is for the native make
> tool, it still requires presence of CMake during compilation. Bakefile
> has no such requirement.

You mean if I generate a MinGW-makefile (e.g. makefile.gcc) from a CMake 
-makefile I can not use it with MinGW alone (mingw32-make -f 
makefile.gcc)? I need to have installed CMake?
Why? What is the technic behind it?

> CMake also does (auto-)configuration

This time I don't know If I need something like this for my project. ;)



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