WHY is cmake such a total shitstain?

Nothing about it works. literally nothing. I can't even make it run a script and do probably the single most fundamental notion of what it means to run a script, which is display its fucking output.

If you want help. Maybe posting a pastebin and describing in detail what you want to achieve would be a great start...

Just use make.
Seriously.

@Root Just Make it work

@alexbrooklyn Groan. 🙁

Fuck cmake, just use make, seriously.

Cut the hyperboly if you don’t know how to use it.

@aviophile It's not hyperbole, cmake is the definition of feature-creep.

I would tag FrodoSwaggins, but I don’t want to add to his stress by reminding him of his cmake nightmares. 🙁

@Root I love stressing people out!

@FrodoSwaggins

@PrivateGER definitely agree with that. But besides that, i only had smaller problems, that always could be solved pretty quickly.

But i also have to admit, that i never needed to execute scripts while building my stuff.

@dc443 what did you try so far?

@halfflat cannot answer that.

But most of the time you'll have to use stuff for a certain reason.

And maybe I can help resolving the issue at hand. Doesn't change the fact that CMake is a brittle fucked up system and abstraction whore, yes.

yeah, just use Make, seriously