From 41de897b6bf58919ffc18a21faa4e36963464a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:24:11 +0000 Subject: describe the cmake situation --- lib/Makefile.am | 2 +- lib/README.cmake | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 lib/README.cmake diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am index 354c56019..8427ce3f3 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile.am +++ b/lib/Makefile.am @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ VCPROJ = libcurl.vcproj DOCS = README.encoding README.memoryleak README.ares README.curlx \ README.hostip README.multi_socket README.httpauth README.pipelining \ - README.curl_off_t + README.curl_off_t README.cmake CMAKE_DIST = CMakeLists.txt curl_config.h.cmake diff --git a/lib/README.cmake b/lib/README.cmake new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c75e1d0b --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/README.cmake @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + + CMake build system and (lib)curl + ================================ + +The CMake build support is experimental. + +Every now and then people approach us in the project to add support for +another build system. This time, several people wanted us to add support for +CMake. So we did. + +Since the introduction, however, there has been little to no maintaining of +this build concept for curl. You cannot build the same set of combinations +that you can with the autotools version of the build, and there have already +been bugs filed against the CMake build system that haven't been addressed - +due to lack of maintainers. + +We keep the files included in release archives and CVS for now in the hope +that people will appreciate it and help us keep them in shape, and even +improve them to become on par with the main build system. If not, we might +remove them again in a future version. + +Daniel, November 2009 just before the 7.19.7 release -- cgit v1.2.3