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Any color on why the choice of CMake for build? Versus bazel or open-sourcing Microsoft’s tool? Something like bazel remote builds is an absolute game changer
by choppaface 7y ago
Any color on why the choice of CMake for build? Versus bazel or open-sourcing Microsoft’s tool? Something like bazel remote builds is an absolute game changer for large C++ projects (especially versus CMake).
(re "We're working on a CMake build system... Until that's done, we're keeping our legacy build system around in the stl/msbuild subdirectory. (We're keeping those files in this repo, even though they're unusable outside of Microsoft, because they need to be updated whenever source files are added/renamed/deleted. ")
- sebazzz 7y agoIf the Microsoft tool you are referring to is MSBuild, that one is already open source.
- pjc50 7y agoIs it? Finally an opportunity to understand how the damn thing works.
- ygra 7y agohttps://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild It's also fairly well documented: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuild https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/msbuil...