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by paul_manias
1911 days ago
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Come on... make is a perfectly good choice (and for me, preferable) for any project that is small to medium sized. However if you get to a stage where you have to compile for 3 or more platforms and need to account for different compiler versions & systems that people may be using, 'make' quickly becomes hell to use. The possible build combinations just get out of hand, and you can't if-then-else your way out of every situation. Ultimately you get to a point where makefiles can't deal with the growing complexity of a big project. That is where CMake really shines - it takes the headache out of managing complex, sprawling builds once you get it setup, and you won't have to keep tweaking the config to manage every other dev's system. I grant that the documentation is not perfect and there is a significant time investment in getting everything 'just so', but the long-term time savings make up for that completely in my experience. |
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