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

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org> wrote:
> 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
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In the past I have found it to be way too much work for too little
gain and hence don't wish to use it on Windows.