Cross-platform compilation of software projects, Managing complex build configurations across multiple platforms
It is a powerful tool for complex, multi-platform builds but is unnecessary overkill for simple compilation tasks.
Simple, single-file compilation tasks where direct compiler commands suffice
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I'd much rather just pick CMake and move on. Meson is yet another incompatible incremental improvement that offers basically nothing other than cute syntax.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: C++ build system
Build systems are fragmented: CMake vs Meson vs Bazel vs Make vs Ninja, pick your poison.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Build system for C++ projects
Systems like CMake needed to know modules, which took time.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Build system needing to understand C++ Modules
I have never seen any advantage of CMake over the much simpler GNU make.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Build system for software projects
I can just `g++ -O3 -o prog prog.cpp` or such to compile without even bothering with a makefile or CMake.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Build system (implicitly, as something they avoid)
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