current status: writing a build system in cmake
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@pikhq @whitequark there are a lot of people for whom build systems are just not on their radar. I don’t understand them in the least, but I have definitely observed them in action.
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current status: writing a build system in cmake
not "something that builds a project and is also implemented in implemented in cmake"
no, it is "something that is implemented in cmake and can be used to implement a build system that is in turn used as a part of a build system (also in cmake)"
@whitequark someone wrote a raytracer and PNG encoder in CMake sooo
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The world of buildsystems is weird and fascinating.
My opinion on cmake is that (for certain domains) it's the best there is, and that's sad.
@asmw @whitequark to some extent, cmake is a natural consequence of the fact that every platform is almost actively hostile to the idea that 3rd party developers also target other platforms
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i'm making it sound more complicated than it is, the actual thing boils down to "cmake's dependency resolution algorithm doesn't work for a particular edge case i'm having, so i'm implementing a different one, in cmake script"
but also "dependency resolution algorithm" is basically what a build system is, so,
@whitequark
Having called out to tsort from a GNUmakefile to order library builds, I'm taking emotional damage from this thread. -
What happens if we remove all the abstractions? That will make everything simpler!
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