[webkit-dev] CMake as a build system?

[Bill Hoffman]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org> wrote:
> Thanks Nico for digging up the archive.
> As I said in the other thread, the people at the session mostly looked about
> reducing the number of build system, not forcing anyone to use any tool. If
> some teams wants to switch to CMake, prefect as long as the number of build
> tool reduces. Nobody seemed willing to switch to qtmake. Nobody at the
> meeting advocated for CMake.
> I don't have first-hand experience about CMake but from I only heard midly
> negative comments. The generated xcodeproj and vcproj are far from 'native'
> and from f2f discussion, at least one llvm guy isn't happy about CMake and
> would rather move it off. The 'native' IDE feel was very high in our
> priority list, especially in XCode in fact.
>

It is as native as we can make it.   However, we do call cmake during
the build at some points, to overcome shortfalls of the build tool.
Also, to re-run cmake if any of the input files change. Also, basic
system commands like cp can be done with cmake -E copy_file so it is
portable.

-Bill