Comments on: Learning to love CMake http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/ Man bites Ogre Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: David Sugar http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-304703 David Sugar Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:22:01 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-304703 We had gone through our own struggle with making cmake work, and do so cross-platform, in GNU Telephony, as we also have people working on a similarly diverse number of platforms and that may also use different ide's. One ide not mentioned here is qtcreator, which, while it also has it's own quirks, can be made to work with cmake reasonably well, and is also genuinely cross-platform as an ide. One advantage I found in it is that you can get it to recognize multiple cmake build configurations managed through one project instance and then switch between them (debug vs release or static vs dynamic lib builds for one example), rather than having to regenerate and manage entirely separate projects for each config like you have to do for some cmake generated targets. We had gone through our own struggle with making cmake work, and do so cross-platform, in GNU Telephony, as we also have people working on a similarly diverse number of platforms and that may also use different ide’s.

One ide not mentioned here is qtcreator, which, while it also has it’s own quirks, can be made to work with cmake reasonably well, and is also genuinely cross-platform as an ide. One advantage I found in it is that you can get it to recognize multiple cmake build configurations managed through one project instance and then switch between them (debug vs release or static vs dynamic lib builds for one example), rather than having to regenerate and manage entirely separate projects for each config like you have to do for some cmake generated targets.

]]> By: jacmoe http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-265288 jacmoe Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:51:58 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-265288 I think CMake can easily call premake to do that job. :wink: necromancer! :P I think CMake can easily call premake to do that job. :wink:

necromancer! :P

]]> By: Erwin Coumans http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-265098 Erwin Coumans Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:34:21 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-265098 I'm using cmake in a couple of projects. The biggest benefit for premake is that it can create XBox 360 or PlayStation 3 projectfiles, but I supposed Ogre is not targetting professional game developers yet ;-) I’m using cmake in a couple of projects.

The biggest benefit for premake is that it can create XBox 360 or PlayStation 3 projectfiles, but I supposed Ogre is not targetting professional game developers yet ;-)

]]> By: Bill Hoffman http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-251039 Bill Hoffman Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:44 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-251039 To follow up on the "continuous integration tool". CMake includes CTest, and CTest has the ability to send data to CDash www.cdash.org. You can setup a project here: http://www.cdash.org/CDashPublic/ to try it out. To follow up on the “continuous integration tool”. CMake includes CTest, and CTest has the ability to send data to CDash http://www.cdash.org. You can setup a project here: http://www.cdash.org/CDashPublic/ to try it out.

]]> By: Steve http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-251026 Steve Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:14:31 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-251026 CMake supports MSVC, Linux makefiles, Code::Blocks (MinGW and Linux), Eclipse, XCode. And there is a GUI on the Mac, because I use it ;) Essentially the choice was governed by the submission of an almost-finished system by CABAListic, but CMake does appear to do more than premake, for C++ anyway. Premake doesn't do XCode or Eclipse for example, doesn't have the config GUI (very handy), doesn't seem to have an equivalent of CPack. So on balance I'm happy he chose CMake. CMake supports MSVC, Linux makefiles, Code::Blocks (MinGW and Linux), Eclipse, XCode. And there is a GUI on the Mac, because I use it ;)

Essentially the choice was governed by the submission of an almost-finished system by CABAListic, but CMake does appear to do more than premake, for C++ anyway. Premake doesn’t do XCode or Eclipse for example, doesn’t have the config GUI (very handy), doesn’t seem to have an equivalent of CPack. So on balance I’m happy he chose CMake.

]]> By: Grant http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-251013 Grant Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:43:01 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-251013 For automating, I've had success with Premake in my cross platform projects. The learning curve is not steep and it generates project files for IDEs other than MSVC. Does CMake support other IDEs (CodeBlocks)? A front end could be developed for OGRE's build settings if desired, which could look similar to Ogre's run-time display config editor, but Premake doesn't come with this out of the box. I realize that the front end for CMake has big appeal to its users, but only those that are working on Windows get this feature, as the last time I checked I saw no front end for CMake on linux/mac. For automating, I’ve had success with Premake in my cross platform projects. The learning curve is not steep and it generates project files for IDEs other than MSVC. Does CMake support other IDEs (CodeBlocks)? A front end could be developed for OGRE’s build settings if desired, which could look similar to Ogre’s run-time display config editor, but Premake doesn’t come with this out of the box. I realize that the front end for CMake has big appeal to its users, but only those that are working on Windows get this feature, as the last time I checked I saw no front end for CMake on linux/mac.

]]> By: Steve http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-250877 Steve Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:23:39 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-250877 @John: yeah, we used Ant to automate all our builds in Java. CMake's nicer though because it combines the ability to automate and to generate useful IDE setups. @Bruno: you don't need to physically include the files to do that - I usually just add the Ogre .vcproj to get easier intellisense & debugging capabilities. @PolyVox: cool, thanks - I generally use GVim on Windows but I keep meaning to give Notepad++ a go, will do that. @John: yeah, we used Ant to automate all our builds in Java. CMake’s nicer though because it combines the ability to automate and to generate useful IDE setups.

@Bruno: you don’t need to physically include the files to do that – I usually just add the Ogre .vcproj to get easier intellisense & debugging capabilities.

@PolyVox: cool, thanks – I generally use GVim on Windows but I keep meaning to give Notepad++ a go, will do that.

]]> By: PolyVox http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-250847 PolyVox Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:30:22 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-250847 Just for your information, Notepod++ does syntax highlighting for CMake files. Makes it a bit easier to work with. I expect that KWrite/Kate will do the same on Linux, but I haven't checked. Just for your information, Notepod++ does syntax highlighting for CMake files. Makes it a bit easier to work with. I expect that KWrite/Kate will do the same on Linux, but I haven’t checked.

]]> By: Bruno Martínez http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-250843 Bruno Martínez Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:25:40 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-250843 I include Ogre in my game's VStudio solution to get better debugging and intellisense. Instead of the premade projects that I have to adapt anyway, I would prefer building Ogre was a matter of including the right files. There's no need for the plugin architecture this way, also. I include Ogre in my game’s VStudio solution to get better debugging and intellisense. Instead of the premade projects that I have to adapt anyway, I would prefer building Ogre was a matter of including the right files. There’s no need for the plugin architecture this way, also.

]]> By: John http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/03/06/learning-to-love-cmake/comment-page-1/#comment-250840 John Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:43:37 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=1572#comment-250840 Another advantage of cross platform build tools, is the ability to use wider range of continuous integration tool to do the whole, automatically build in ten different formats, then test each one individually. Granted, I'm more of a Java/.NET man than C++, but thats what I really like about Ant/NAnt rather than a proprietary, or undocumented build tool like MSBuild Another advantage of cross platform build tools, is the ability to use wider range of continuous integration tool to do the whole, automatically build in ten different formats, then test each one individually. Granted, I’m more of a Java/.NET man than C++, but thats what I really like about Ant/NAnt rather than a proprietary, or undocumented build tool like MSBuild

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