Re: [Gimp-developer] What about switching from Gtk+ to Qt

[Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Partha Bagchi wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Jernej Simončič <jernej ena si> wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 29, 2012, 13:55:48, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > > CMake can generate GNU make-compatible makefiles just fine, so unless you meant
> > > GNU Automake, that's not the issue. CMake can also generate project files for
> > > other IDEs and support some other build-systems, all from the same sources, so
> > > in this respect it is far superior to GNU Autohell.
> >
> > How well does CMake handle cross-compiling? I recently had to compile
> > a few projects that didn't use autotools, and getting them to
> > cross-compile wasn't fun (one of those made some very wrong
> > assumptions about Windows as well, which didn't help either).
> Exactly!! I for one definitely vote against such a change assuming my
> vote counts. :)

Just chipping in with some actual information: cmake does support 
cross-compiling quite well. See 
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling.

Boudewijn