CMake technical debt

[russ.gorby at gmail.com]

I do have some experience with Cmake. We had a fairly mature cmake system that I helped maintain and develop which built our code base for Linux and Windows (both native compilers) but it's been 2 years since I've done any development so everything is some relearning of course.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2025 11:07 AM
To: russ.gorby at gmail.com
Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: CMake technical debt

Not for me. Build system problems are a major pain point so they tend to get attended to.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t things that could be done better. Do you have a lot of experience with cmake?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 30, 2025, at 8:33 AM, <russ.gorby at gmail.com> <russ.gorby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m now building successfully all the opaque pieces on windows, and it seems to install and run.
> I was wanting to get more familiar with the anatomy/topology of the code base.
> I was thinking of doing something in the CMake realm to gain some familiarity there.
>  Is there anything that is annoying the developers that would be beneficial to fix/change in CMake realm but is not critical path for anything?
>  Thanks.
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