[Gtk-sharp-list] Migrating to CMake?

[Martin (OPENGeoMap)]

PLEASE take a look to WAF. waf have fully support to .NET/mono/D, GTK, 
etc, etc.

http://code.google.com/p/waf/

GNOME using waf???
http://hughsient.livejournal.com/11016.html


CMAKE is difficult to hack and extend. Besides is a new ugly programming 
language.
> Hi,
>
> in my opinion the current build process does not suit Gtk# and a 
> cross-platform project in general. The autotools/make build system is 
> simply not portable; Windows users have to install either a Cygwin build 
> environment or create their own Makefiles(as I finally did).
>
> At first I thought that Gtk# could get rid of the autotools and instead 
> create static makefiles(also make on its own is quite powerful) as I did 
> for MinGW's make/Windows(I'll mail them to the list later if someone is 
> interested), but this solution requires a lot of work, is difficult to 
> maintain and limited for two platforms because you would have to set 
> variables such as $(rm) conditionally to rm(Linux) or del(Windows).
>
> I think we need a cross-platform build process and thought about 
> migrating to CMake. CMake runs natively on all important 
> platforms(including MacOS) and seems to fulfill our needs(it does even 
> support cross-platform compilation!). The gapi-cdecl-insert script can 
> be replaced by a sed command as I did in the MinGW makefiles already. 
> What do you think? Is my idea actually possible? I would start working 
> on it if you want.
>
> Christian
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