[CMake] on cmake supporting one arch per project (from CMake IR)

[David Cole]

There's nothing wrong with that approach, per se, it simply "doesn't
feel natural" to Xcode and Visual Studio users.

Xcode and Visual Studio users building modern apps for multiple
targeted platforms (phone, tablet, simulated phone/tablet, desktop,
other) are used to switching the target platform in the IDE somewhere
**within a single project file** for non-CMake-generated project
files. Forcing them to have multiple Xcode or VS project files, one
each for each of their platforms (and configs) feels like a lot of
work somehow.

The only thing "wrong" with your approach is you have to spend a lot
of time convincing people that CMake is worth it, when all they want
to do is open a project file and build. They don't want to have to
manage a slew of build trees and project files, when it seems like it
ought to be "done already" with what's readily available in the UI...

I totally understand this, and get it. And I still love CMake despite
this particular shortcoming. ;-)


David C.




On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tamás Kenéz <tamas.kenez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-07-30 11:51:54 GMT, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc via CMake wrote:
>
>> how on Earth am I going to build x86/x64/ARM targets from one VS solution?
>> [...]
>> the way how CMake has been designed immediately rules it out from ~75% of
>> application development going on in the world in the future (mobile app
>> devel)
>
> Well, we are building Android and iOS projects with CMake and we simply
> configure separate build dirs for each architecture. We even need to
> configure seperate dirs for Debug and Release builds for the makefile
> generators.
>
> It doesn't feel like a problem for us. We simply adapt our workflows to it.
> Is there anything wrong with this approach we don't recognize?
>
> Tamas Kenez
>
>
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