“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Efforts to further automate the process by introducing tools like automake, autoconf and m4 increased the complexity. Setting up a build system the right way became extremely difficult with configure and Makefile.in. ? When configure.ac and automake were introduced to compile a mere ten-line program the problem of too many (layers) was apparent. But of course, all problems in computer science can be solved by another layer of indirection except for the problem of too many layers of indirection. They did what they best knew – introduce the extra level of indirection. When the configure scripts stated to get bigger than the actual program, programmers knew they had to do something. Complexity: The Party PooperĬreating and maintaining the configure script and Makefile.in were difficult due to their complexity. This came to be popularly known as the build dance as it involved the configuring, building and installing steps. Given the source and the Makefile.in, programmer instinctively opened a terminal and now wrote: It is the responsibility of the configure script to take the Makfile.in and produce a customized Makefile specific to the system. They applied the fundamental theorem of Software Engineering and introduced the extra level of indirection – Makefile.in Programmers being programmers wanted these customizations to be done automatically.
The Makefile had to be customized specific to the system. Programmers wanted to compile the same source across these diverse systems but the Makefile was a constraint. Enter ConfigureĪs times went by systems started to get diverse. The system worked flawlessly because it was built by programmers to be used by programmers. Failure mostly meant fixing compilation errors which programmers were adept at anyway. Success meant the program or library was immediately available for use. Given the source and the Makefile, programmer instinctively opened a terminal and wrote: Hence it was easy for programmers to create a Makefile, define the standard targets and expect Make to take care of the rest. Every self-respecting Unix system had a version of Make bundled with it. So, what is the “official” way to use CMake on Windows together with cl compiler provided by Visual Studio and ifort compiler provided by Intel Parallel Studio XE? I would prefer solution using Visual Studio Generator for my project, if possible.“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”Īny library or executable that was made compiling more than a couple of source files involved Make.
I’m using Visual Studio 2017 and Intel Compiler 19.0 on Windows 10 in this case. NMake Makefiles generator -> Fortran compiler is detected successfully, but compilation fails shortly afterwards with some syntax error.Visual StuWin64 generator, path to the Fortran compiler is specified -> Fortran is not able to compile a test program.Visual StuWin64 generator, no Fortran path specified -> Fortran compiler is not detected at all.The compilation on Linux posses no problems, but Intel Fortran compiler on Windows seems to cause great complications for CMake. I’m trying to build my C/C++/Fortran project both on Ubuntu and Windows10.
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