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I agree, I stay away from CMake whenever possible. I've tried so much to understand it, and yet, it kicks me around like a pinata



Same. By now I almost have an allergic reaction to thinking about using it.

I know the basic thing I'm trying to do is not going to work, and that I'm going to wind up opening 20 browser tabs that alternate between (1) trying to understand from first principles how to do it properly (and getting frustrated going around in circles through their labyrinthine yet thoroughly incomplete docs), and (2) just desperately searching the rest of the web for the right incantation to whisper (and getting frustrated by all the blog posts and forum answers that describe how to do the thing before they went and changed how everything works).

Feeling the rage and despair build as hours roll by, and you're still staring at a screen full of the most cretinous syntax ever excreted into the world.




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