Use CMake as a build system

[aide]

Use CMake as a build system

[KOLANICH]

1 crossbuild and cross-toolchain compatibility
2 hate to autotools

[Zugschlus]

Is there any reason for doing so?

[hvhaugwitz]

At the moment I don't see any reason to move away from autotools. But I'm open for serious arguments.

What are the advantages/disadvantages for me as developer and/or for the user of AIDE?

[KOLANICH]

@oss-assist , the main reason to use cmake is not a build tool (make, ninja, nmake), but its compiler abstraction layer (I don't have to create a compiler-specific code myself for determining compiler features for which which abstractions are already implemented in cmake (for example I can ask CMake to require the latest C++ standard and CMake will generate the flags for a compiler itself) ) and out of the box cross-build support (one just creates a toolchain file with paths to needed tools). Also autotools results are arcane large sheets of slow shell scripts that are hard to debug, I don't want to touch them.

[Zugschlus]

sounds like marketingblurb to me.