[Mesa-users] Building Mesa on Windows (Follow up)

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:36:24 +0000
Rick Irons <Rick.Irons at mathworks.com> wrote:

> For what it’s worth from an occasional Mesa user, the scons centric
> Windows tool chain is a bit unwieldly.  It would be helpful if there
> was just a single tool dependency that handled the build on Windows.
> 
> From: Chuck Atkins [mailto:chuck.atkins at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 11:00 AM
> To: Rick Irons <Rick.Irons at mathworks.com>
> Cc: mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] Building Mesa on Windows (Follow up)
> 
> If there's actual interest in this form the mesa developer coimmunity
> then I'd be happy to put some effort on it, but ATM I doubt it since
> most people seem to be pretty happy dealing with autotools for most
> things.  W/o developer buy-in then it'd be just another thing that
> would need to be maintained but seldom used. That being said, if
> somebody else wants to champion the idea and get the support for it,
> then I'll happily put the work into it.
> 
> ----------
> Chuck Atkins
> Staff R&D Engineer, Scientific Computing
> Kitware, Inc.
> (518) 881-1183
> 
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Rick Irons
> <Rick.Irons at mathworks.com<mailto:Rick.Irons at mathworks.com>> wrote: Hi,
> 
> Has consideration ever been given to using ‘cmake’ as the build tool
> for Mesa?  It would be nice to have a single build tool chain
> regardless of platform as is the case with Open Scene Graph.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick

Hi,

I think you should take this discussion to mesa-dev@ mailing list.
After all, it's not a user issue but a development matter.

However, my guess would be that you will encounter very heavy
resistance for suggesting cmake, perhaps up to simply being totally
ignored.

Maybe you could find some of the rationale in the mesa-dev@ archives
from the time when Scons was determined to be the way for Windows.
Suggesting cmake is surely not a novel idea. For you to be taken
seriously, you should try to find the old arguments why cmake was
rejected and address them in your suggestion.

My personal experience with cmake has been extremely bad, but I don't
work on Mesa either, and even less deal with Windows.


Thanks,
pq
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