Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib

Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by tanderson92 on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:11AM (#9665594)

Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling. When designing a cross-compiling linux distribution(http://exherbo.org/docs/multiarch.txt) we discovered that autotools is by far the easiest to deal with when it comes to arbitrary host & build targets, compilers, etc. I would be even bolder and say that:

Those who do not understand autotools are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by danieldk on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:43AM (#9665800)

Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling.

...and it cannot deal with non-exotic use cases like non-UNIX environments (think Windows + Visual Studio) well at all. In contrast, with CMake you can generate an nmake file or Visual Studio project with one command.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by JoshTriplett on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:05AM (#9665939)

On the other hand, with autotools you can cross-compile for Windows using MinGW.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by Sanddancer on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:24PM (#9666709)

Just like someone under unix could always just use mono's xbuild to build a project using visual studio's .vsproj files. Course, people tend to get grumpy when you tell them that they have to jump through hoops to use your project, just like your suggestion...

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by nitrogen on Friday June 05, 2015 @12:09PM (#9666269)

I use CMake to cross-compile firmware for my home automation hardware. It doesn't seem too bad, just a single file shared across all projects that defines the compiler binaries and settings. I like it much better than autotools.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by detaro on Friday June 05, 2015 @12:17PM (#9666316)

Do you have an example online somewhere? This might be useful to have as a reference in the future.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by bodyfour on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:06PM (#9666607)

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by tanderson92 on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:52PM (#9666871)

Note that autotools handles all that (referencing also your link in another child comment) for you with no extra work. Writing a autoconf script for a native architecture means your project should compile for a cross arch.

It is for that reason I much prefer autotools, especially at the distribution level where you really don't want to be patching things. CMake can work, but I have had to do more patching for CMake build systems than I have had to for autotools; on that basis I consider autotools "better", at least for our use case.

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