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Re: Build using CMake

From: Piotr Dobrogost <pd_at_curlpp.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:04:50 +0200

Pierre Joye wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Piotr Dobrogost <pd_at_curlpp.org> wrote:
>> Pierre Joye wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> FYI, cmake supports MingW build tools suite.
>> Ok. We don't want to use both CMake and MinGW, however. We would like to
>> use only one of them or to be more precise either CMake or minGW+auto*
>> tools. At least that's my impression. Does someone disagree?
>
> I think you are confused. Mingw is first a port of the gcc compiler to

I never can be sure I'm not confused :)

> To avoid another possible problem, mingw is by no mean an alternative
> to CMake, nmake's makefiles or VC++ project files. Mingw binaries
> (besides behing horribly slow) are only compatible with VC6
> (simplified description).

Talking about minGW as an alternative to CMake I had in mind only its
auto* tools and other stuff that makes these auto* tools work under Windows.

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Piotr Dobrogost
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Received on 2009-03-29