It can build a Rust program (build.rs) which builds things that aren't Rust, but that's an entirely different use case (building non-Rust library to use inside of Rust programs).
There's GprBuild (Ada tool) that can build C (not sure about C++). It also has more elaborate configuration structure, but I didn't use it extensively to tell what exactly and how exactly does it do it. In combination with Alire it can also manage dependencies Cargo-style.
Or meson is a serious alternative to cmake (Even better than cmake imho)
CMake also does sequential configuration AFAIK. Is there any work to improve on that somewhere?
Meson and cmake in my experience are both MUCH faster though. It’s much less of an issue with these systems than with autotools.
Just tried reconfiguring LLVM:
Admittedly the LLVM build time dwarfs the configuration time, but still. If you're only building a smaller component then the config time dominates:
You mean cargo build
... can cargo build things that aren't rust? If yes, that's really cool. If no, then it's not really in the same problem domain.
No it can't.
It can build a Rust program (build.rs) which builds things that aren't Rust, but that's an entirely different use case (building non-Rust library to use inside of Rust programs).
There's GprBuild (Ada tool) that can build C (not sure about C++). It also has more elaborate configuration structure, but I didn't use it extensively to tell what exactly and how exactly does it do it. In combination with Alire it can also manage dependencies Cargo-style.
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cmake uses configure, or configure-like too!
Same concept, but completely different implementation.