[gdal-dev] CMake for GDAL (was: Building Improvment for Ingres driver in Windows)

[Howard Butler]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:20 AM, Dmitry Baryshnikov wrote:

> 30.01.2012 12:03, Tyler Mitchell пишет:
>> On 2012-01-29, at 11:46 PM, Dmitry Baryshnikov wrote:
>> 
>>> By my opinion, the cmake will more flexible in path searching and setting all necessary definitions.
>>> I'm playing with cmake building of gdal (but not final version yet). What do you think about cmake building of GDAL?
>> 
>> I enjoy using cmake on other projects but haven't used it before on Windows.  Are you thinking of cmake for GDAL on Windows?
> Yes I am. The cmake on Windows is rather simple and it has GUI. There are some problems of automatic dependency search, but anybody can set it via open file/folder dialogues.
>> 
>> Thanks for the ideas, both of you, keep them coming and I encourage anyone with thoughts to speak up :)
>> 
>> Tyler

All,

A CMake configuration for GDAL is underway, but I do not know its current status at this time, however.  Jayesh, is there any chance you can give an update of where things on this effort are at, and is it ready for volunteers to start testing and stretching it out more?

Howard