On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Naram Qashat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com">cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The subject pretty much sums up the question. I'd like to know if it's possible, though. I was trying to get CMake adopted to be used for a project I'm working on, but the response has been mixed. The biggest detractor has been that CMake is required at all times to build, while the old build system was using Autotools and didn't require the users to need Autotools installed beforehand in order to build. It's a combination of that and the amount of space required to build CMake itself (most of our users are using shell hosts that won't provide them CMake) that has given more heavy negative feedback than positive, even though the other advantages CMake gives outweigh Autotools. But this is the biggest disadvantage that is bringing it down.</blockquote>
<div><br>No, it's not possible.<br><br>CMake is extremely easy to use from the prebuilt tarballs Kitware provides, however. The binaries are all static and I have never had a problem running them on a Linux distribution before. There is no need to mess with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and adding the "bin" folder to your PATH is even optional. It is 41MB untarred but if space is a concern you can remove the cmake-gui, documentation, man pages, "ctest", "cpack" and end up with a pretty small package approximately 11MB in size uncompressed.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html">http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html</a><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Philip Lowman<br>