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I think we have to go deeper than that to really see an advantage of cmake. A corresponding makefile would be: all: hello That's not really complicated ei

• radarsat1 10y ago
  Exactly. When evaluating a language / build system / whatever, it is definitely not sufficient to look at Hello World. You have to evaluate the worst case and average case if you want to get an idea of what you're in for. Looking at the "best case" (simple one-file project) tells you almost nothing except how hard it is to get started.
  • ryandrake 10y ago
    When evaluating build systems, one of my major questions is: How much "magic" will I have to work-around in order to do something off the beaten path that the build system's developers never considered? This is a good criteria for languages as well.
• stormbrew 10y ago
  The thing is that these are not equivalent hello worlds. I mean, if only for the fact that the cmake example does proper header dependency management, which is essential to correctly compiling c/c++ code as it changes. It's not something you can leave out of a makefile and still call it correct.