[gdal-dev] cmake4gdal?

Scott Bailey Bailey at InsaneGenius.org
Tue Feb 10 06:41:20 PST 2015


Even,

I take it the plan is to replace Autotools with CMake?  Then it's just the
timeline in question?

SB

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le mardi 10 février 2015 00:34:44, Scott Bailey a écrit :
> > Dmitry,
> >
> > Great!  So which drivers need CMake help?
> >
> > And what is the probability of cmake4gdal replacing autotools?
>
> Scott,
>
> I can imagine that replacing will take a few versions until we are
> confident
> that the cmake build system is stable enough & embrace all possibilities of
> autotools & windows build systems. In the meantime, there would be
> coexistence
> of the build systems.
>
> Even
>
> >
> > SB
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Dmitriy Baryshnikov <
> bishop.dev at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >  Hi Scott,
> > >
> > > The latest code is here:
> > > 1) https://github.com/nextgis/gdal_svn/tree/cmake4gdal
> > > 2) https://github.com/nextgis/gdal_svn/tree/rsmd-reader-dev <-- this
> my
> > > current branch
> > > 3) https://github.com/nextgis/gdal_svn/tree/wms-ags-dev
> > >
> > > There are some problems:
> > > there is no autotest directory in current repo, but it'll be more
> > > correctly to have the whole fork, not only sources (CTest?).
> > > So I plan to merge this three branches and make the full fork (with
> > > autotest) of OSGeo/GDAL in github.
> > >
> > > Anyhow we need to complete all drivers which is not yet cmaked.
> > > I plan to create wiki page in new repo with table of all GDAL drivers
> and
> > > their cmaking status and total percent.
> > >
> > > By now we need:
> > > 1) More testing and fixing on all platforms
> > > 2) Cmaked all drivers and applications, which is not yet cmaked
> > > 3) I plan to play with third party libs by cmake mechanism -
> > > ExternalProject_Add
> > >
> > > As for me the 2) is more important.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > >     Dmitry
> > >
> > > 09.02.2015 22:02, Scott Bailey пишет:
> > >  Building GDAL for Linux is a snap, MSVS is OK, but I find myself
> > >
> > > struggling to get a compilation with MINGW.
> > >
> > >  I've cloned the cmake4gdal 1.9 git repo and built that in Linux.  As
> > >
> > > expected it was simple.  Haven't had time to play with MINGW, yet.
> > > Never-the-less, I've found CMake based projects less frustrating than
> > > autotools when building with Windows, especially when using MINGW.
> > >
> > >  What is the status of cmake4gdal?  Is there something I should do to
> > >  help?
> > >
> > >  --
> > >
> > > Scott Bailey
> > >
> > >
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