Re: Surveying interest regarding CMake

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 2:17 AM Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 1:35 AM Horváth V. <friendlyanon_@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2022. 01. 03. 18:17, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> > Oh, that would be an issue. We can't use Cygwin builds; MinGW builds >> > might be okayish, though. ICU ships a VS solution file >> > (source/allinone/allinone.sln) which works fine. I don't know >> > whether using that would be okay for Conan. >> >> No need to worry about that, it's just a way to coerce ICU's build >> system into behaving well on Windows. Conan uses Msys2 as a build >> environment for projects with *nix lock-in, which produces native >> binaries without the cygwin shenanigans. >> > > what does it mean exactly here? > > it uses msys for autoconf and co support but actually uses vc? or it > relies on gcc and co? > rt*m :) it can use whatever is needed and prioritization of cmd in the paths is supported, neat :) https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/systems_cross_building/windows_subsystems.html >