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joelthelion on June 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using unix as your IDE

Fortunately there are better build systems available nowadays. CMake is a lot easier on the beginner, and yet it is used by large projects like KDE.

joe_the_user on June 13, 2012 [–]

Sadly, my experience with CMake makes miss the otherwise annoying make.

This is mostly from trying to compile tar balls that used it. It didn't seem to give error messages for missing parts as well as simple make.

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