[LLVMdev] VS build is broken again

[Tim Sander]

Hi
> Others have suggested alternative build systems before like cmake.
> Apparently cmake can autogenerate VC++ and Xcode project files from
> the same thing that it builds from on unix systems.  Has anyone used
> cmake in a real system before? 
I haven't used it myself but it seems to do the job for the KDE devels. 
There's some background information on http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/. It 
seems as if the cmake developers where quite responsive to their needs.

> To me, I think it would be interesting to switch over 
> llvm and clang (probably start with clang since it is very small) and
> do other things later (e.g. llvm-test may never change off gmake,
> gmake is too useful there).
I never liked the autotools. CMake looks much friendlier at a first glance.

Tim