So is there interest in a proper CMake based build system, which allows shared object builds and proper deployment as people working with external libraries under unix/linux are accustomed to, and will reduce the cross-platform maintenance effort? I haven't had the time to look into what @procedural maintains, but if it builds fine and works (does it?) what are the reasons for not switching over?
The point being, that I've looked into what the dependencies and build requirements of oF are intensively in the last days, got a working solution for the openFrameworksConfig.cmake, and since we're doing a static build this was I think comparable effort to just going and writing a whole project configuration. Just want to ask the lead devs if there's still interest, then I might look into this at times and issue a pull requests. No promise that I can be quick however, work and other programming stuff takes most of my time right now.
Another issue is that openFrameworks, being built completely monolithic right now, becomes rather a beast. I think the number of dependencies will increase than decrease in the future, and people will have to get everything onto their system and properly set up even if they only want to use specific parts of the library. A Cmake build would allow to have a nice way of disabling those subsystems/components as well...
[Edit: merged posts and expanded..]