[CMake] What is the status of CMake on DJGPP?

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> One of the PLplot developers has been maintaining a special DJGPP 
> build of
> PLplot for some time, and I was wondering if it would be possible for 
> him to
> use our existing CMake build system instead?
>
> Google searching shows that there is a lot of interest in CMake on DJGPP,
> but I haven't yet figured out from such searches if CMake is expected to
> work on that platform or not.
>
> If CMake is expected to work on DJGPP, what advice should I pass on to 
> him
> about using CMake on DJGPP? He has very little cmake experience and I 
> have
> no DJGPP experience and no access to any kind of windows platform.  
> However,
> there are other PLplot developers (such as Arjen Markus who is 
> subscribed to
> this list) that have gotten the existing PLplot CMake build system to 
> work
> on Cygwin, MinGW/MSYS, and bare windows so with the right advice we 
> might be
> able to bring our DJGPP developer up to speed with our CMake build 
> system.
>
> On the other hand, if CMake is not expected to work on DJGPP, it would be
> nice to know that as well so we won't waste our time with that 
> combination.
I am not sure if this has been tried.  However, with the right make I 
would think that you could get this
work.   For example I am using gmake with visual studio 8 cl and it 
works fine.   So, it all
depends on if there are odd things about the input to DJGPP.

-Bill