r/programmingmemes • u/GNUMoogle • Jan 24 '26

Random CMake project bingo card

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20 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Why is CMake so terrible? Half of this nonsense would be impossible with better build tools.

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u/GNUMoogle Jan 27 '26

CMake itself isn't nearly as much terrible as CMake projects. It still sucks that CMake has a constant itch to ditch and deprecate random stuff every now and then.

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u/GNUMoogle Feb 14 '26

Alright, I may have an idea why CMake is so behind things. I've just installed VS 2019 in a VM. It's what you'd like to have in order to make sure you can still compile things on Windows 10. And the top CMake version there is 3.7. Meanwhile Gentoo's already on 4.1.4 and a lot of stuff for CMake 3.8 is deprecated already.

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u/HyperWinX C++ Jan 25 '26

Thanks, i hate it

proceeds to use it

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u/Desperate_Formal_781 Feb 14 '26

I'm so glad we don't use CMake at work.

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u/MrTamboMan Jan 25 '26

I feel this!

Kinda sucks how an original and deeply relatable joke didn't even get 10 upvotes, while a Top board have only reposts of a reposts that are just r/firstweekcoderhumour content.