ср, 23 мая 2018 г. в 8:56, Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker_at_infor.com>:

> >
> > > 1. solution files
> > > 2. cmake
> > > 3. nmake
> >
> > and...
> >
> > 4. configure (msys/mingw)
> > 5. Borland makefiles
> > 6. mingw makefiles
> >
> > > I understand that 'everybody is liking his own preferred method' (in
my
> > case
> > > #3), but it also makes that the few maintainers/contributors
available only
> > > check one or probably 2 out of 3 available methods. That is
encouraging
> > > inefficiency in my opinion. I know, that if someone decides to flavor
one of
> > > these 3, I may also suffer from dropping the other two.
> >
> > My hope was always that one of them would eventually grow up to be "the
> > winner", but that simply never happened. And it's not likely to
actually ever
> > happen. I actually don't think the build system plethora is such a big
> > problem, they mostly work.
> >
> > If we would drop build systems from the list above, it would make the
most
> > sense to drop 1, 3, 5 and 6 I think, leaving configure and cmake. I
just don't
> > think we would make many users happy today or tomorrow if we'd make
> > that
> > announcement.
> >

> I'm both working on *NIX and Windows, and from that point of view I
understand your preference of dropping 1,3,5,6.
> However, from Windows point of view, 1,3 are THE native visual studio
ones. That native ones are usually preferred by Windows developers
> (but again: correct me if I'm wrong) as using/building cURL is not an end
in itself. In most cases, curl is a part of a larger whole.
> Windows developers are using curl as part of whatever (IMO usually). For
that reason, the build procedure of curl need to
> match or incorporated in some way with a larger whole, i.e. the code base
of the adopting party. If a adopting party does not use
> none of the 'non-visual-studio' methods, the others make not much sense.
Of course, if someone uses 'one of the others', they can
> say the same for the visual studio-based methods.

> I think - but that is a wild guess of me - the *NIX look-alikes on
Windows systems are being used because their organization forces

> to use a Windows system (laptop or desktop) but the end-users love the
UNIX world, and thus use something like mingw/Cygwin (=4,6).
> Their actual need is a Linux system, but that one does not offer
Microsoft office. Borland is something from very long time ago (30+ years)
for me.

Just FYI, CMake able to generate 1,3,5,6
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-generators.7.html
So you can use nmake after the cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" invocation.

-- 
Best Regards,
Sergei Nikulov
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