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I found Xmake looking to replace CMake scripts that CopperSpice<\/a> used. I mean, when one has to use three different search engines to look up a function before you can find it . . . Then you are told it is undocumented for internal use only . . . Not something one wants to see in production code!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regular readers have seen me write about CopperSpice, CMake, and general hacks found in legacy toolchains<\/a>. CMake is immensely convoluted and seriously bloated. I tried VCPKG but it came up short. Well, it came up immensely short in platform support. It has the classic Microsoft problem – only wanting to support what built and shipped 15 minutes ago. When I tried to support Ubuntu 18.04 vcpkg failed spectacularly. Nothing in the repos went back that far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the medical device world we can have twenty-plus year hermetically sealed development environments. It’s only been like the last five years that Harman stopped calling about a medical device for heart patients using OS\/2 and Qt 3.x. Once you get through your FDA 510K you avoid another one at all costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broad hardware and OS support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don’t read or do much Lua programming. It seems to be kind of “everywhere” and nowhere. I mean it is part of the Scintilla<\/a> library that is the core for a long list of editors<\/a>. Just visit this Xmake page<\/a> and check out the long list of supported operating systems and CPUs. They even support i386 Linux. When I asked I was told they actively support Windows 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugh all you want. There are hospitals and doctor offices running Windows XP. Upgrading the desktop OS for your medical records system is high risk in the ER. You have very little warning when a cart with a patient will be crashing through the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hello_glib.cpp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everybody needs a “hello world!”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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