On Friday 09 December 2011 20:31:02 L0ner sh4dou wrote:
> While searching some info on the net about porting projects from
> autotools to cmake i have found this:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide#CMake
> Apparentely they have script that converts automatically .am files to
> cmake files. I've run it on several not-yet-ported-to-cmake trinity
> components, and it generated nearly whole CMake files structure. Yet
> it doesn't generate config.h.cmake file which is needed (without it
> compilation simply don't happen). I've asked for help on kde-devel irc
> channel, but without any success (maybe I'll ask later).
> Whole point is, maybe we could adapt this to generate our cmake files,
> thus speeding whole porting to cmake?

Actually writing cmake rules are realy simple, because I developed macros to 
simplify the process, is a simple copy/paste procedure. Most of time is 
consumed developing check procedures.

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/CMakeConversionProcess


Manually porting is preffered, because resulted files are very clean, 
predictible and easily debugable, with no useless dependencies.


-- 
Serghei