Re: [Openexr-devel] looking for a working 2.0.1 Windows build

[Thorsten Kaufmann]

Sorry this was meant for the list not Michel only :)

From my experience i wholeheartedly agree. Maybe this mainly a windows problem 
too? But no matter what I tried to build using CMAKE ended up in a frustrating 
disaster heh

Cheers,
Thorsten


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Von: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Im Auftrag von Michel Lerenard
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juni 2014 09:31
An: address@hidden
Betreff: Re: [Openexr-devel] looking for a working 2.0.1 Windows build

On 06/17/2014 07:35 AM, Piotr Stanczyk wrote:
>
>  I am hoping that CMake can serve our needs well.
Somehow I disagree.

I've been using and compiling free libraries using cmake for a while now, and I 
have to say that's the worst build system I've ever seen. Of all the libraries 
I've compiled, OpenEXR is the only one that I could build with a few tweaks 
only. For most of the others, it's easier and faster to create visual solutions 
from scratch than having Cmake correctly generating the projects.

I'm quite sure that it would not be more difficult to maintain Visual Solution 
than updating the CMake config files (that's what I with other libraries), and 
far much easier for people to use them. For my point of view (user building 
third party libraries with it), Cmake seems so complicated, generates so many 
files and uses so many variables that it's hard to believe it's easy for 
library maintainers to update it.

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