<html><head><base href="x-msg://561/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The suggestion of replacing the "genMakefiles"/"genWIndowsMakefiles" configuration tools with "cmake" comes up every few years. The last time someone suggested it was in June 2010; here is my response from back then:<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2010-June/012244.html">http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2010-June/012244.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately the results of the poll that I called for then were underwhelming, to say the least. I got 8 responses. 2 people said that they wanted the configuration tools left as is. 3 people said that they would prefer switching to "cmake". The other 3 people said that they didn't care either way. So, with such an anemic response, I concluded that there was simply no consensus for making such a change. The fact that more than 2 years elapsed until anyone proposed this again reinforces this conclusion.</div><div><br></div><div>But there's a more practical objection to using "cmake": It - at least with the configuration file that was provided - doesn't work for all platforms/development environments that we support. I tried it yesterday, and found:</div><div>- It works on Mac OS X (except that it got the names of the target application binaries (e.g., "live555MediaServer") wrong; however, I assume that that is something that could easily be fixed).</div><div>- It doesn't work on FreeBSD, because to successfully compile the code on FreeBSD, the flag "-DXLOCALE_NOT_USED=1" needs to be added to the command line. Similarly, for various other platforms, other (platform-specific) flags need to be added. For the existing tools, the "config.<os>" files serve this purpose. For "cmake", presumably some similar platform-specific configuration stuff would need to be added - which would defeat the supposed simplicity benefit of using "cmake".</div><div>- For Windows, it doesn't seem to support certain old versions of Microsoft 'Visual Studio' - e.g., version 5.0 (which is what I happen to use for testing LIVE555 builds for Windows).</div><div><br></div><div>So based on all this: Although anyone is (of course) welcome to use "cmake" or any other tools themselves. However, at least for now, I won't be supporting it in our released code.</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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