Closed Bug 378278 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Use CMake as build system

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: bgrupe, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 CMake has several key advantages over the classic configure/make build process, such as faster compile times on all platforms, ease of use, cross-platform compatibility, extensibility, progress reports etc. Please consider using it for future versions of gecko and the client applications. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The requirements of our build system, which builds many non-binary types of data, are completely mismatched with cmake.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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