{"id":246,"date":"2012-04-16T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ale.org\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:52:51","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-april-19th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., April 19th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our highlight presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
\nfor 7:30pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 will be:
\n
\nCMake <\/font> or
\nHow I Learned To Stop Worrying and
\nLove Automated Build Systems<\/font>
\nwith Ryan Curtin<\/strong>
\n
\nSynopsis:<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Maybe you’ve heard of CMake before. If you haven’t, maybe you’ve
\nheard of autotools. And if you have worked with autotools, well, I am
\nsure your friends have heard your sighs of sorrow. If you have worked
\nwith CMake, you probably have your own sighs of sorrow too.
\nBuild systems, or “makefile generators”, as CMake calls itself, are
\nnever pretty. But it’s better than that festering mess you call a Makefile.
\nI mean, come on! You don’t even know how it works anymore. Nobody
\ndoes. It’s this horrifying black box that executables magically come out
\nof. Oh, and it’s not portable… don’t even think about running that on
\nHP-UX or whatever. And if it is portable… well, I can only imagine
\nthe nightmare _that_ Makefile must be.
\n— CMake provides most of a solution to your building and compilation
\nproblems. It has a nice language which lets you define how to build
\nyour projects, and on top of that, it’s portable, even to Windows.
\nUnfortunately, there is some voodoo required when dealing with CMake.
\nMy aim in this presentation is to shed light on some of this voodoo and
\ngive you enough knowledge to (a) start building your simple (or
\nadvanced) projects with CMake and (b) know how to find solutions to your
\nmore complex problems (and unfortunately with CMake, Google-fu isn’t
\nalways enough).
\n
\nBio:<\/strong><\/em>
\n— Ryan Curtin is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech studying machine
\nlearning. He [denies having any] interesting biographical trivia [despite
\nbeing an extraordinarily complex biological machine which is constantly
\nlearning through the generation of trivial biographical data ].<\/p>\n

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\nWe will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
\nusual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found
\n[here]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our highlight presentation at the ALE Central Meeting for 7:30pm on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 will be: CMake or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Automated Build Systems with Ryan Curtin Synopsis: — Maybe you’ve heard of CMake before. If you haven’t, maybe you’ve heard of autotools. And if you have worked with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}