[CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM, steve naroff <snaroff at apple.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your comments Oscar.
>
> Our current thinking is to post process the cmake generated files and remove
> all the absolute paths (since the project files are simply text). Since
> cmake is a black box to me (and I am unfamiliar with it's generated 'code'),
> it's unclear if this a 'good' idea? Or will I bump into other gotcha's?
>
> Any advice is appreciated...you have a lot more experience with this than I
> do!

Steve, if that was a good idea, CMake would be doing that by default
instead of using absolute paths, don't you think?

As Eric pointed out, you must add CMake to your compiler build chain.
It's one more tool (and with no third-party dependencies), like the C
preprocessor, the C compiler and the linker. We did that at work and
it's no big deal, people are so happy with the pro's of CMake over our
former buildsystem (Visual C++ projects for Windows and Makefiles for
Unix, which required twice the amount of maintainance work), they are
not looking back.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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