Ant for C++ development

[Generic Usenet Account]

Recently we found an antcontrib project for c++.
This tool is described as "The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of
user supplied task (like an <if> task) and a development playground
for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation task for different
compilers. URL: htp://ant.apache.org/projects.html"

So our question is - Are any users for this tool in the c++ developer
community? Also if there are any other open source c++ projects using
this build tool?

Our appologiges if this question is off topic on this newsgroup. If
someone could suggest an appropriate user group for such postings.

Thanks,
Siva and Deepa.

 

[Bob Hairgrove]

Recently we found an antcontrib project for c++.
This tool is described as "The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of
user supplied task (like an <if> task) and a development playground
for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation task for different
compilers. URL: htp://ant.apache.org/projects.html"

So our question is - Are any users for this tool in the c++ developer
community? Also if there are any other open source c++ projects using
this build tool?

Our appologiges if this question is off topic on this newsgroup. If
someone could suggest an appropriate user group for such postings.

Thanks,
Siva and Deepa.

I don't use Ant, but surely you must know about the Eclipse CDT
project?

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

Eclipse/CDT can build a project either with Ant or use a standard make
build.

 

[Jim Sculley]

Recently we found an antcontrib project for c++.
This tool is described as "The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of
user supplied task (like an <if> task) and a development playground
for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation task for different
compilers. URL: htp://ant.apache.org/projects.html"

So our question is - Are any users for this tool in the c++ developer
community? Also if there are any other open source c++ projects using
this build tool?

I use it for my personal JNI stuff.

Jim S.

 

[akrapf]

Check out terp

While terp at codemesh.com/products/terp/ is not free (for most use cases) it offers a very powerful ANT C++ task that works with many compilers, operating systems, and processor architectures. You can use high-level constructs like

<multithreaded/>
<runpath path="."/>

to specify your build options and terp translates that into the proper compiler switches. It also gives you full control by allowing you to use generic options that are filterable by compiler/platform/etc.

As for its status: terp was released in beta in July '09.