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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Makefile or IDE?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:02:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2021-12-06, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 06/12/2021 14:51, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> I use CMake for cross-compilation for microcontroller stuff. I don't
>> use it for my own code, but there are a few 3rd-party libraries that
>> use it, and I don't have any problems configuring it to use a cross
>> compiler.
>
> OK.  As I said, I haven't looked in detail or tried much.  Maybe I will,
> one day when I have time.

I see no reason at all to use for embedded code unless you want to use
a large 3rd party library that already uses it, and you want to use
that library's existing cmake build process. For smaller libraries,
it's probably easier to write a makefile from scratch.

IMO, configuring stuff that uses cmake seems very obtuse and fragile —
but that's probably because I don't use it much.

--
Grant