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Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling. ...and it cannot deal with non-exotic use cases
by danieldk 11y ago
Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling.
...and it cannot deal with non-exotic use cases like non-UNIX environments (think Windows + Visual Studio) well at all. In contrast, with CMake you can generate an nmake file or Visual Studio project with one command.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoOn the other hand, with autotools you can cross-compile for Windows using MinGW.
- Sanddancer 11y agoJust like someone under unix could always just use mono's xbuild to build a project using visual studio's .vsproj files. Course, people tend to get grumpy when you tell them that they have to jump through hoops to use your project, just like your suggestion...