Hi Bill, In the pre-Cmake days I remember building VTK on Windows with a program that configured VTK for the build. Do you remember what it was called? This was back around 2000!
Regards Andrew > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com> > To: "Alan W. Irwin" <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> > Cc: CMake Mailinglist <cmake@cmake.org>, cmake-develop...@cmake.org > Bcc: > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:36:56 -0400 > Subject: Re: [CMake] Happy Birthday CMake! > > On 9/2/2018 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the first > place! > > Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of CMake > that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this software > since its inception? For example, I am pretty sure you have stated before > that it > did not start out as a C++ project. If so, when did it switch to C++? > I did look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>, but the history > paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes made along > the way in the development of CMake. > > CMake has always been in C++. The idea was that all that would be > required would be a C++ compiler. With that, you could build CMake. Since > CMake was designed to build C++ projects, it was assumed that the user > would at least have a C++ compiler. > > Should be some history these talks: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjtN8NGtl4 > > I don't think there is anything written. > > -Bill > > > > -- ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean ___________________________________________
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