Compared to what? It beats autotools, make, shell scripts, anything you could write in less than five years of dedicated time, and anything else that assumes the compiler or target system.
However it is still a terrible build system. But since everyone else uses it i do too as it isn’t worth fighting for something better.
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You can just type “make” in the directory and it will do what you expect
Is it bad that I want to do it now?
Is cmake bad?
Not if you’re making cment.
Let’s say we know how to do better than cmake now.
Compared to what? It beats autotools, make, shell scripts, anything you could write in less than five years of dedicated time, and anything else that assumes the compiler or target system.
However it is still a terrible build system. But since everyone else uses it i do too as it isn’t worth fighting for something better.
I just created a helper for this new build system, I plan on getting angel investors for my startup.
I’ve also created my own license so anyone that views it is now working for me. The wrapper:
#!/bin/bash
g++ *