[omniORB] using cmake to build omniORB

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Titus von Boxberg via omniORB-list wrote:

> Duncan, all,
> 
> from what I can see in the archives this question pops up now and then but never seems to get answered.
> 
> I assume that the benefits of CMake are well known, especially when using MSVC.

Well, if I want to have really Visual Studio covered I find "gyp" tool really nice.

> Could there be a consensus to switch the build system to CMake?

Personally I have a mixed feelings about CMake: it solves some problems and for easy cases
it's realtively easy to use, but sometimes it gets really obscure in the details. Feels
like dealing with nested C preprocessor macros.
I could find the way to figure out how find_libraries and add runtime linker search path when
compiling with libraries not on the system runlime linker search patch (a project directory
with a couple of separately built runtime libraries). 

Something like compiling omniORBpy with omniORB library built in some other directory and
not being installed globally.

Just two cents, not really a heavy omniORB or cmake user :)

Marcin