[webkit-dev] CMake as a build system?

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> 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.

Calling cmake during the build would likely be a showstopper for the  
Mac port. As far as I know, Apple's build farm does not have CMake  
installed (at least not on older build trains). And it's not easy to  
convince the build engineers to install custom build tools.

Regards,
Maciej