Support for generating Makefiles/CMake_files/... about ekam

[kentonv]

Hi @dumblob,

Sorry for the slow reply. I was on vacation and am still digging my way out of my email backlog.

Yes, I've always intended that Ekam should eventually generate makefiles, or perhaps a build script. Unfortunately, I do not expect that we'll have the time to implement that in the foreseeable future, as we have a lot on our plates here at Sandstorm.

One major complication: Since Ekam determines dependencies empirically, it is hard for it to know what might be different on a different system. The generated build scripts would end up highly specialized to your specific system, distribution, set of installed dependencies, versions, etc. So probably you'd have to tell users: "Here are a bunch of scripts for common setups. Choose the script that seems closest to your system, but if it doesn't work, you'll need to install Ekam."