Re: Heads up: CMake build system for libobjc

[David Chisnall]

On 13 Dec 2012, at 14:00, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2012, at 13:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
>> It has the rather obvious problem that it doesn't run because there's no 
>> cmake on any of the systems I use.
>> I guess that would be an issue for the vast majority of our users.
> 
> Given that CMake is the standard build system for a number of large and 
> popular projects, including  LLVM and KDE, and is available for every 
> platform that we support (and a number that we don't), I don't think that 
> this is exactly a serious limitation.  I don't know of any system except 
> Windows and OS X that don't have it in their standard package repositories, 
> and these systems do have it as an easy-to-install download.  

P.S. The LLVM optimisations in the libobjc tree already built with CMake, so 
this is not a new dependency.  

David


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