Re: MSVC build system

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:00 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> In the longer run I want to make the whole system more data driven, so
>> that it's comparatively easy for someone to add stuff.
>>
>
> I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I wonder if maintaining two
> separate build systems is the best approach in the long term. I think
> CMake[1] is an interesting alternative: it would allow us to generate
> both makefiles and MSVC .proj's from a single set of master build files.
>
> -Neil
>
> [1] http://www.cmake.org
>
>

I would be more than happy if we had a single build system. Maybe some
enterprising person would like to try to create such a system as a proof
of concept. I count around 200 makefiles in our sources ;-)

Of course, we'd need to know that cmake was pretty universally available
too.

cheers

andrew