Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Bill Hoffman (bill.hoffman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-17 08:18:48

Boris Gubenko wrote:
> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>
>   
>> While I'm at that point (cross-platform) - does anyone know if CMake is
>> available for OpenVMS? I'm well aware that Boost.Build isn't compatible
>> with OpenVMS currently, but I also believe that porting the current
>> system would not be impossible as most of the Jam stuff is VMS-capable.
>>     
>
> I don't know if Cmake is available VMS. From
>
>   http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=3974&pos=6
>
> it looks like the only problem with Cmake on VMS is that it does not
> generate MMS rules (as you, probably, know, MMS is VMS native make, it
> is close to Posix make. Since VMS has gmake (on the Freeware CD)
> and Cmake can generate rules for gmake, I'm not sure what's the point
> in adding support for MMS to Cmake.
>
> Anyway, I'll try to find out if Cmake was ported to VMS and will get back
> to you.
>
> Thanks,
>   Boris
>   
There was some interest in VMS, but I don't think it went very far.  If 
someone has access to a
VMS machine, and they are willing to submit at least a Nightly CMake 
dashboard from it.
(if not a continuous one)  Then I would be happy to help with the port.  
I just need to make sure
my time is not wasted in the port, as if we don't continuously test it, 
it will stop working in a
short period of time.   I would say for the first pass gmake would be 
the best way to go.

-Bill