john cliff-2 wrote: Having two parallel build systems means that people using one system will tend to break the one they don't use. Having only one means that such breakage will be uncommon (e.g. only when somebody checked in non-portable code or forgot to check whether it compiles at all). What I'm saying is that we should either remove the CMake system or move to it entirely and remove the autotools system. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21212285.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

I think we had one build system when I started working on Inkscape which is about 2,5 years ago (right?). So if you really want to try to unify things, you should look there maybe. 2Geom uses CMake, and although it works on multiple platforms, there is always trouble on different platforms. Probably every system we can come up with has this. It's not that big a deal though. I think the build rarely breaks because of the different build systems (most often, a Windows builder forgets to add a file to Makefile_insert, one of the cool things that the windows buildtool does automatically). This is usually fixed promptly, thanks to the cool guys on the (for me) other side. New files are not added so frequently. (I don't quite get why the makefile list is inclusive, instead of making the whole thing exclusive so you can add files without having to think about it...) More often cross platform build breaks are caused by #ifdef clauses that are not compiled on windows/linux, or because of some 'standard' include file that is not known on linux/windows. Build systems are not going to solve that. This mail is sort of meant as a warning; I think most people like the build systems as they are now, and are very reluctant on changing their habits with it. So spend your time wisely :-) (I much rather have Joshua on 2geom conversion. I helped a bit with the CMake stuff, but it is even more annoying than the 2geom conversion, without a real reward in the end too I'm afraid) Cheers, Johan

J.B.C.Engelen wrote: The rationale of Automake authors for not supporting wildcards is that it prevents broken commits where somebody forgot to svn add the crucial file. It also allows one to build different applications out of a single directory, like we do with inkscape and inkview. I'm not entirely convinced but I'll bear with it. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21224128.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

J.B.C.Engelen wrote: In reality, inkview should not reuse every file from Inkscape, just those it needs to work. It only shows that our codebase isn't very modular and there are many unnecessary dependencies. I tried using MSYS on Windows to build Glib, but I failed at pkg-config, which complains about unknown escape charaters - probably a too-old g++ version. CMake on the other hand can only use MSVC projects on Windows, and I'm not going to install it since it's super-bloatware. I think that for now we have to put up with our existing build solution... Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21224999.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

john cliff wrote: Yes, it does. But does btool support the configuration detection that is possible with Autotools and CMake? Aaron Spike

Aaron Spike-2 wrote: I needed it to test a bugfix for Glib for handling Unicode filenames as program arguments on Windows. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered :) Please don't spread misinformation with such certainty. :-) CMake works There was no information about it on the CMake site - I assumed this is the only option. I'll investigate CMake some more. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21235857.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, I would like to use a widely used build-system on Windows as well. currently a build process lasts ages. I hope using some parallel build feature. I want make -j4 Adib. --- On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: