On 08-03-12 21:52, Johan Engelen wrote:

Hi all,
   I would like to have an IRC meeting about the build system on Windows.

Although I like buildtool, it cannot do parallel builds, so I am happy
to change (back) to something else. And unify it with Linux if possible...
I am trying cmake now, but it does not link without errors yet. It is
not very encouraging to see the cmake build process get stuck on some
intermediate step for a long while, seemingly checking something to find
out it does not need to rebuild it. "btool" does this much much quicker...

In any case, I'd like to discuss the options. Who's in?

Depends on when the meeting is, but I wouldn't mind participating.

And here's an alternative option: use buildtool on Linux as well.
Seriously. Yes, buildtool has its deficiencies, and it is much less
flexible than *make, but it is /so/ much easier to use and maintain (the
build file itself I mean, not buildtool). I'm completely unaware of the
issues involved in getting it to work on Linux, so perhaps it's just not
very feasible. Or perhaps I'm unaware of some of the issues buildtool
has on Windows. But I would hate to see buildtool go and be replaced by
some other monster of a build system just because it couldn't do
parallel builds (which should in principle be fixable).