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Programming / Re: Which development tools do you use?
« on: November 14, 2011, 10:47:52 am »
The build system depends on the needs and targets.
As I said even previously the autotools work on windows and mac (on win you just need mingw). But it is much more convenient to use the CMake.
On the other hand CMake syntax is way more uglier than the autotools (just check how those look like in the git) and currently it does not work/install all the files up to the linux standart (yes i could fix that, but autotools can do that out of the box right away).
The autotools also bring you powers of awesome packaging for release. Just try running "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make dist" and you will get proper tarballs that you can put on some webspace for release
So you can be sure that most people using this on linux will use autotools (in this area I count even distro packages), as an example see the buildscript for Gentoo/Sabayon/Funtoo distros. https://gpo.zugaina.org/AJAX/Ebuild/2429990/View
As I said even previously the autotools work on windows and mac (on win you just need mingw). But it is much more convenient to use the CMake.
On the other hand CMake syntax is way more uglier than the autotools (just check how those look like in the git) and currently it does not work/install all the files up to the linux standart (yes i could fix that, but autotools can do that out of the box right away).
The autotools also bring you powers of awesome packaging for release. Just try running "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make dist" and you will get proper tarballs that you can put on some webspace for release
So you can be sure that most people using this on linux will use autotools (in this area I count even distro packages), as an example see the buildscript for Gentoo/Sabayon/Funtoo distros. https://gpo.zugaina.org/AJAX/Ebuild/2429990/View