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[Eric Berberich <>]

Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory) 
> < 
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
>     On Tuesday 06 October 2009 04:44:55 
>
>     
> <mailto:>
>  wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > I just compiled CGAL 3.5 but similar to old version, which
>     CGAL_MAKEFILE I
>      > should specify in
>      > applications ?
>
>     Since CGAL-3.4, there are no longer any equivalent to CGAL_MAKEFILE,
>     now that
>     CGAL build system is CMake (whereas previously it was a home-made shell
>     script).
>
>     Were you using cgal_create_makefile, to create your Makefile? If you are
>     willing to switch also to CMake, there is that script
>     cgal_create_cmake_scripts, that does the same job: create a default
>     CMakeLists.txt file, that is to be used with CMake.
>
>     If you are not willing to switch to CMake, ask us again with more
>     details
>     about your needs, and maybe we will be able to help you further.
>
>     --
>     Laurent Rineau, PhD
>     R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory          
>     http://www.geometryfactory.com/
>     Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/
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>
> Hello,
>
> I wish we could switch to cmake soon, but it is not going to happen. But 
> we manually created a similar Makefile and it is working.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Can you post details (the file itself) as maybe other projects are also 
aiming for something like this. At least I know one ;-)

Best eriC