2011/6/14 Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...>:
I tried to get CMake going on Windows, and in the end it did not work because the final commandline to link it all was too large. I did not know how to solve it, and frankly, was no longer sure what exactly we would gain from the whole effort to convert the build mechanism.
1. Building on Windows on multicore systems could be up to 8x faster. 2. We would no longer need to maintain two separate build systems for Unix and Windows. 3. There are many useful build features that are a nightmare to implement in Autotools but fairly easy in Waf or CMake, for example the authors list in the About dialog could be generated from the AUTHORS file.
Since Krzysztof already seems to have spent these hours successfully, why don't we go with that for a while?
I would need to update my branch and make it work with unmodified Waf 1.6, so it's not ready for general use yet.
Regards, Krzysztof