I don't build for windows so that's moot for me. Well I do but not C. I've quite happily built makefiles that work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and HP/UX that ar

I don't build for windows so that's moot for me. Well I do but not C. I've quite happily built makefiles that work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and HP/UX that aren't fragile or laborious. It just takes appropriate knowledge of the platforms. I've built some stuff on OSX (small SDL project) and it wasn't too obtuse apart from some paths. CMake, much as all of these things, works up to a point at which point it tries desperately to kill you at every available opportunity.