Why is this the best build tool the C/C++ field can manage?

>>59104346
The problem is that nobody has yet realized that you'd want a library DSL instead of a real grammatical DSL, because at the end of the day you'll need that flexibility.

>>59104346
>>59104379
Oh, and if you still want to go for a declarative DSL, there's meson.

>>59104346
false, the best is GNU Make

>>59104450

CMake generates GNU Makefiles

>>59104596
I know

>>59104395

>meson

cool, yet another build system that assumes that windows users want to bother with the command line and an external scripting language dependency.

>>59105520
>cool, yet another build system that assumes that windows users want to bother with the command line and an external scripting language dependency.

As soon as your project becomes non-trivial, you will have to do that anyway.

I love CMake.

What's could actually be done better?

>>59105659
It could be a library instead of being its own halfassed DSL #994859 for a task that requires an actual programming language as soon as you get over fizzbuzzing.

>>59105563

It is not a forgone conclusion.

>>59105659

The domain specific language desperately wants to be declarative, so when you finally get to a point where that's no longer suitable, you quickly run into trouble. Trouble that can be overcame if you put in the time, but trouble nonetheless.