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Aug 17th, 2007, 3:10 AM
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GNU Makefile or SCons???
whats your pros/cons?
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Aug 17th, 2007, 8:22 AM
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I don't know SCons, But I've used Makefiles. What I think is neat is CMake, which I tried when I heard KDE 4 switched to it. It's basically a replacement for autotools, but cross-platform. It can generate project files for Visual Studio, KDevelop, or generate Makefiles for Unix-like systems including Linux.
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Aug 17th, 2007, 9:26 AM
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Sorry, I realized I wanted to add to that, but the edit time ran out.
Here's the CMakeLists.txt file from that small tic-tac-toe game I wrote. It properly calls all the Qt tools to handle built-in resources and automatic file generation (for things like signals and slots) through included macros for Qt. project (qtictac)
find_package (Boost REQUIRED)
find_package (Qt4 REQUIRED)
include (${QT_USE_FILE})
set (qtictac_SRCS
board.cpp
main.cpp
node.cpp
spot.cpp
tree.cpp
uiBoard.cpp
uiMain.cpp
uiResultsDialog.cpp
uiSettings.cpp
uiSpot.cpp
)
set (qtictac_MOC_HDRS
uiBoard.hpp
uiMain.hpp
uiResultsDialog.hpp
uiSettings.hpp
uiSpot.hpp
)
set (qtictac_RCS
../qtictac.qrc
)
include_directories (${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories (${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
qt4_add_resources (qtictac_RC_SRCS ${qtictac_RCS})
qt4_wrap_cpp (qtictac_MOC_SRCS ${qtictac_MOC_HDRS})
add_executable (qtictac ${qtictac_SRCS} ${qtictac_MOC_SRCS} ${qtictac_RC_SRCS})
target_link_libraries (qtictac ${QT_LIBRARIES})And the output when I build it on Linux: $ cmake ../src -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Check size of void* -- Check size of void* - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found. -- Found Qt-Version 4.3.1 -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /home/jesse/programs/cpp/qtictac/build $ make [ 4%] Generating qrc_qtictac.cxx [ 9%] Generating moc_uiBoard.cxx [ 13%] Generating moc_uiMain.cxx [ 18%] Generating moc_uiResultsDialog.cxx [ 22%] Generating moc_uiSettings.cxx [ 27%] Generating moc_uiSpot.cxx Scanning dependencies of target qtictac [ 31%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/board.o [ 36%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/main.o [ 40%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/node.o [ 45%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/spot.o [ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/tree.o [ 54%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/uiBoard.o [ 59%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/uiMain.o [ 63%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/uiResultsDialog.o [ 68%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/uiSettings.o [ 72%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/uiSpot.o [ 77%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/moc_uiBoard.o [ 81%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/moc_uiMain.o [ 86%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/moc_uiResultsDialog.o [ 90%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/moc_uiSettings.o [ 95%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/moc_uiSpot.o [100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/qtictac.dir/qrc_qtictac.o Linking CXX executable qtictac [100%] Built target qtictac I've heard SCons is good too though, so I wouldn't necessarily listen to me. 
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Aug 17th, 2007, 10:01 AM
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hey thanks man! that looks interesting!
ill check it out  |
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Aug 17th, 2007, 2:28 PM
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I use both SCons and CMake on reasonably large projects so I have a little bit of perspective on both. SCons is great to use and the flexibility and ease of use that Python gives you are great. The downside is you have to setup the IDE projects by hand to call SCons and you have add all the files to the IDE. It also doesn't have any built in system for build profiles (ie "debug" and "release"). SCons is also extremely accurate it will never fail to build you source file if a dependency changes (includes headers that you reference through dependent libraries).
CMake does more out of the box then SCons and its configuration steps are faster. The downside is that the CMake language will get in your way anytime you wish to write anything complex in it. This shouldn't be an issue for a simple project though. The accuracy of CMake is wholly dependent on the generator being used. They appear to do a good job with Makefile generator, but there XCode is not very good at cross directory dependencies.
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Aug 17th, 2007, 3:09 PM
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I don't have experience of either SCons or CMake so I can't offer any comparisons, but I myself tend to use Boost.Build v2 and find it very powerful.
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Aug 18th, 2007, 2:31 AM
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The features that Boost.Build v2 has going for it is the:
* "feature normalization" - which I assume means I can stuff like "I want warnings" and it will do the right thing regardless of platform or compiler * built in variant build support (CMake has this to) - ie. release, debug, etc. * support for lots of compilers To bad it doesn't generate native build files.
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Aug 20th, 2007, 2:51 AM
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cool! im looking at that now! looks interesting! thanks guys!
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