[gdal-dev] Building with cmake

[Bjoern Ruff]

Ok, I compiled the old way (no cmake).
Thank you all for responding
Bjørn

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From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org Sun May 8 14:14:13 2022
Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2022 2:14 PM
To: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
Cc: gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Building with cmake


Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

> In-tree CMake builds are only partly supported currently, because of 
> the continued support of autoconf/nmake and conflicts between 
> generated files of CMake with files used by autoconf/nmake. We should 
> be able to fix that once support for autoconf/nmake is gone
>
> Anyway out of tree builds are always recommended.
>
> When doing "cmake ." you'll get the following warning at the end:
>
> CMake Warning at gdal.cmake:872 (message):
>   In-tree builds, that is running cmake from the top of the source 
> tree are
>   not recommended.  You are advised instead to 'mkdir build; cd build; 
> cmake
>   ..'.  Using 'make' with the Makefile generator will not work, as it 
> will
>   try the GNUmakefile of autoconf builds.  Use 'make -f Makefile' instead.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   CMakeLists.txt:218 (include)

The problem is that there are no instructions for building with cmake, and something that normally works with cmake does not.  By 'there are no instructions', I mean that I looked at README.md (which is hard to read in text because of all the CI stuff), and looked for INSTALL* and BUILDING*, and grepped for cmake.