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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Comparisons.md b/docs/markdown/Comparisons.md index 3c526ad..dcfefa9 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Comparisons.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Comparisons.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: Comparisons ... -# Comparing Meson with other build systems # +# Comparing Meson with other build systems A common question is *Why should I choose Meson over a different build system X?* There is no one true answer to this as it depends on the @@ -11,37 +11,37 @@ to build medium-to-large projects so the decision is usually made on other points. Here we list some pros and cons of various build systems to help you do the decision yourself. -## GNU Autotools ## +## GNU Autotools -### Pros ### +### Pros Excellent support for legacy Unix platforms, large selection of existing modules. -### Cons ### +### Cons Needlessly slow, complicated, hard to use correctly, unreliable, painful to debug, incomprehensible for most people, poor support for non-Unix platforms (especially Windows). -## CMake ## +## CMake -### Pros ### +### Pros Great support for multiple backends (Visual Studio, XCode, etc). -### Cons ### +### Cons The scripting language is cumbersome to work with. Some simple things are more complicated than necessary. -## SCons ## +## SCons -### Pros ### +### Pros Full power of Python available for defining your build. -### Cons ### +### Cons Slow. Requires you to pass your configuration settings on every invocation. That is, if you do `scons OPT1 OPT2` and then just @@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ Implemented in Java. Poor Windows support. Heavily focused on Google's way of doing things (which may be a good or a bad thing). Contributing code requires [signing a CLA](https://bazel.build/contributing.html). -## Meson ## +## Meson -### Pros ### +### Pros The fastest build system [see measurements](Performance-comparison.md), user friendly, designed to @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ be as invisible to the developer as possible, native support for modern tools (precompiled headers, coverage, Valgrind etc). Not Turing complete so build definition files are easy to read and understand. -### Cons ### +### Cons Relatively new so it does not have a large user base yet, and may thus contain some unknown bugs. Visual Studio and XCode backends not as |