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by smackeyacky 1554 days ago
I know I'm getting old but the naming of the project really irks me. If it has an "x" in front of it, I expect it needs X Windows and tosses up some kind of gui.

Also, being old, I don't know why anybody would want to introduce Node style dependency hell into any C++ project when "configure" exists. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-magic-behind-configure-make-...

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> I don't know why anybody would want to introduce Node style dependency hell into any C++ project when "configure" exists

More properly, autotools exists. There are reasons CMake has largely taken over from autotools, despite the considerable problems CMake has. I imagine CMake's far superior Windows support might be the main reason.