CMake support

[Paul Harris]

Hi,

I'm surprised noone has brought this up yet...

Could we add support for the cmake build system?

Advantages:

* easier to support windows builds

* out-of-tree builds, so I can build static, dynamic, static-debug, dynamic-debug, static-debug-static-runtime, etc combinations (each one often needs to be independent in windows)

* used in many projects already.

thanks,

Paul

[Petri Lehtinen]

Paul Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm surprised noone has brought this up yet...

It has been brought up before:

https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/28
https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/48

> Could we add support for the cmake build system?
>
> Advantages:
> * easier to support windows builds
> * out-of-tree builds, so I can build static, dynamic, static-debug,
> dynamic-debug, static-debug-static-runtime, etc combinations (each one often
> needs to be independent in windows)
> * used in many projects already.

The Windows project files for VS 2010 are already included in master,
and will be a part of the next major release, so there's no point in
switching the build system because of Windows.

Petri

[Paul Harris]

I would like to humbly disagree.  I use VS 2008 at the moment.

I will be looking to build on windows soon, so if I make a cmake setup, would you like me to contribute?

cheers,

Paul

[Petri Lehtinen]

Paul Harris wrote:
> I would like to humbly disagree. I use VS 2008 at the moment. I will
> be looking to build on windows soon, so if I make a cmake setup,
> would you like me to contribute?

I'm not willing to maintain configuration for a build system I have no
clue about and that, in my opinion, is inferior to autotools. Jansson
also builds just fine on MinGW, so I still don't think that Windows
should have any more special treatment.

If the VS 2010 project files don't work on VS 2008, it's not hard to
create a project for VS 2008 by hand. Just include all the sources
under src/, jansson_config.h under win32/vs2010/, and use
src/jansson.def as the module-definition file for the linker.

Petri

[Paul Harris]

Ok, I respect that.

I might try and maintain it under a fork on github (my first attempt with github).  If you have a look and like what you see, then you can perhaps look at using it.  Other people can pull from both our trees if they like it.

[Paul Harris]

By the way, I like your API :)  good work!

[Petri Lehtinen]

Paul Harris wrote:
> By the way, I like your API :) good work!

Thanks, I appreciate it. :)

Petri