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cmake does provide support for conan and other C/C++ ecosystem tools via plugins. It works okay. I'm not sure adding a layer of Lua helps the situation. cmake
by mc4ndr3 5y ago
cmake does provide support for conan and other C/C++ ecosystem tools via plugins. It works okay.
I'm not sure adding a layer of Lua helps the situation.
cmake isn't perfect, but the best we have for now. The C++ community has unfortunately been loathe to select a language-wide build tool cum package manager. It's like the early days of Go with all the warring Go dependency systems.
- gavinray 5y agoI didn't buy into the package manager aspect of it, but it's my favorite build tool out of CMake/Bazel/Meson/DDS. One area where it really shines is if you have a cross-language project. Say you are building a shared/static library in C/C++/Rust/D whatever, and you want to use it in some other language. In XMake you can set up a build file that can compile the native library in one language, include it in the other language, and then compile that, in like ~10 lines. Also, it has support for generating CMakeLists.txt automatically, for people that don't want to use XMake. I always commit this to my XMake projects.
- fivea 5y ago> In XMake you can set up a build file that can compile the native library in one language, include it in the other language, and then compile that, in like ~10 lines. Keep in mind that in CMake, that is done by listing the language in program(some program LANGUAGES CXX OBJC ETC) and afterwards you pass the source file list to add-library or add_executable, and CMake takes it from there.