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This is my life now, until I finally understand Cmake. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which will probably be never.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Imo just use something else. If your build system is really simple just write the Makefiles yourself. If the build system tho needs to be really complex I would use something like meson or scons (Having worked on some gigantic fully GNU make build systems it can get pretty out of hand).

This is all a personal preference thing but cmake in my experience is really non intuitive and a pain to debug. I know it works for a lot of people but I definitely prefer particularly like scons since its python I have a bit easier time understanding what's happening.

If you really need to use cmake, use a debugger like another user commented. There's also a GNU make debugger in case you need to debug makefiles