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For better or worse though, CMake has won! Many IDE's including Visual Studio can directly work with CMake files. In addition, even Google which is famous for doing things their own way, has now added official, first-class CMake support to their open source C++ library Abseil https://abseil.io/blog/20190402-cmake-support If you are writing an open source C++ library, even if you support some other C++ build system, c…
Does it produce hermetic builds?
What's hermetic builds?
Kind of like a container for building? I had to look it up myself.
Meson[0] has been gaining in popularity and has migration tools for cmake projects. Large projects such as systemd and gnome[1] have migrated or have been migrating for years [0] https://mesonbuild.com/ [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting
But the meson installation has many dependencies, it is not very lightweight, it needs python, ninja, and xmake has built-in luajit, no third-party dependencies, more lightweight
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But the meson installation has many dependencies, it is not very lightweight, it needs python, ninja, and xmake has built-in luajit, no third-party dependencies, more lightweight
Python is preinstalled on any major Linux distro. Ninja is tiny, so those don't seem that heavyweight.
Don’t ever install software by piping arbitrary remote scripts into bash.
Unless you read and thoroughly understand the script first.
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What's hermetic builds?
Hermetic Builds. ... Our builds are hermetic, meaning that they are insensitive to the libraries and other software installed on the build machine. Instead, builds depend on known versions of build tools, such as compilers, and dependencies, such as libraries. Kind of like a container for building? I had to look it up myself.
Unless remote dependencies are used, this is optional.
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What's hermetic builds?
Hermetic Builds. ... Our builds are hermetic, meaning that they are insensitive to the libraries and other software installed on the build machine. Instead, builds depend on known versions of build tools, such as compilers, and dependencies, such as libraries. Kind of like a container for building? I had to look it up myself.
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Unless you read and thoroughly understand the script first.
Not even then. The Server can detect if you pipe to a shell or just download the script: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
The vast majority of users would trust Homebrew (for example) to not do something like that.
Don’t ever install software by piping arbitrary remote scripts into bash.
What would it take beyond https and a well-known site to make you comfortable doing this?
Meson[0] has been gaining in popularity and has migration tools for cmake projects. Large projects such as systemd and gnome[1] have migrated or have been migrating for years [0] https://mesonbuild.com/ [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting