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This is my life now, until I finally understand Cmake. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Which will probably be never.

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[-] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 29 points 3 months ago

Life is and will always be better writing your own Makefiles. It's literally so easy. I do not get the distaste. Cmake is arcane magic. Bazel is practically written in runes. Makefile is a just a glorified build script, but where you don't have to use a bunch of if statements to avoid building everything each time.

[-] leggettc18@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

That works until you need to support Visual Studio or Xcode. Then you either maintain their stuff manually too, or you get CMake to generate all three. I don’t love it but it solves the problem it’s meant to solve. The issue is people using it when they don’t need to.