Subject:
Re: [ruby-ffi] Re: Other compilers?
From:
Jon
Date:
2/1/10 8:34 AM
To:
ruby-ffi@googlegroups.com

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Someone pointed me to this:
> >
> > http://industriousone.com/premake
> >
> > Anyone tried it?
> >
> 
> Yes, is nice but abstract and can end being complex.
> 
> It doesn't support mingw32 cross compiling functionality either from
> fedora, macports or ubuntu packages, so it requires some tricks to
> make it generate proper GNU makefiles for those cases.
> 
> If your library/dependency chain depends on autoconf, expect
> reinventing the wheel to create the premake files.
> 

FWIW, I also keep meaning to check out

http://www.cmake.org/

and the LLVM project has an quickstart page that links to page that tells how to cross compile with cmake

http://www.llvm.org/docs/CMake.html

Anyone tried cmake?

Jon