[sldev] Heads up - we're working on CMake

[Harold Brown]

http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=5719

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Generator_Specific_Information#How_to_generate_NMake_Makefiles_using_Visual_C.2B.2B_Express_Edition_.28free_Visual_Studio_8.29

It appears the issue with Express and CMake has a solution

On Nov 29, 2007 8:02 AM, Dzonatas <dzonatas at dzonux.net> wrote:
> Alissa Sabre wrote:
> > Note that I have no objection to switch to cmake.  What I heard about
> > cmake sounds good.  I'm suggesting a better process to adopt cmake.
> >
>
> Likewise, I have no objection to *test* cmake.  As of this date, the
> amount of direct feedback I have received from Lindens about the OSLCC
> version of llscons to build the viewer is absolutely zilch. The OSLCC
> version meets the same basic requirements as stated by BOS, or it at
> least can further progress to other desired requirements. I started the
> OSLCC version based on requests by Lindens and in order for me to build
> the viewer with scons on Windows and under a cross-compiler. It
> successfully has done such... proven by this release where not a single
> use of VS project files were used to build it:
>
> SecondLifeSandbox-1.18.0.6.OS.3-Setup.exe:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=191214
>
> Rob Linden asks if it is a substantial improvement over the existing
> scons file:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting/2007-10-25  (about
> 14:26 in log)
>
> With zilch for feedback, I can't tell anybody if it is a substantial
> improvement. I feel it is headed towards to being complete waste of time
> to extend it beyond my needs (I, and all Express users, can't use the
> project files at all, even if cmake builds them).
>
> I am curious about the nmake files that cmake generates, but I'm not
> going to waste any more time, when there is no other feedback, to build
> a cmake equilavent of what I already done in OSLCC/llscons just to test
> the nmake builds. If BOS wants to continue progress with cmake, allow
> the test phase on it and the nmakes work fine, then awesome!
>
> P.S. LL already has my CA on file.
>
>
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