From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: MSVC build system |
Date: | 2007-08-27 18:38:35 |
Message-ID: | 20070827183835.GG20539@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>> I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I wonder if maintaining two
>> separate build systems is the best approach in the long term. I think
>> CMake[1] is an interesting alternative: it would allow us to generate
>> both makefiles and MSVC .proj's from a single set of master build files.
>
> I would be more than happy if we had a single build system. Maybe some
> enterprising person would like to try to create such a system as a proof of
> concept. I count around 200 makefiles in our sources ;-)
>
> Of course, we'd need to know that cmake was pretty universally available
> too.
That, or we create the makefiles in a fixed system and keep the
Makefiles in CVS (though would be derived files).
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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