[CMake] [blog article] It's Time To Do CMake Right

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Feb 20 09:41:14 EST 2018


On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:59:10 CET Kai Wolf wrote:
>  Nice,
> 
> ​I've found a smaller issue though. I've just submitted a PR on GitHub.
> The reddit discussion is also interesting. A common theme in the typical
> "CMake is bad" discussions is not the lack of documentation​, but a good
> tutorial on how to *actually accomplish things* using CMake in a correct
> and scalable manner.

I've used cmake since 2006, and I am completely in a fog when it comes to how 
I should update my project (which has a couple of hundred cmakelists.txt 
files, thirty external cmake projects and oodles of libraries and plugins) to 
something more modern...

> As a shameless self-plug: I am currently writing a book[1] on exact this
> topic and really hope, I'll be able to release it by summer 2018 :-(

Well, put me down for three copies!

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