Currently, scripts use various heuristics to detect loaded NewGRFs that are inherently unreliable.
The list of loaded NewGRFs is easily accessible to a human player, and thus giving
scripts the same information is consistent with the current approach to not give scripts
more information than a human player.
CMake works on all our supported platforms, like MSVC, Mingw, GCC,
Clang, and many more. It allows for a single way of doing things,
so no longer we need shell scripts and vbs scripts to work on all
our supported platforms.
Additionally, CMake allows to generate project files for like MSVC,
KDevelop, etc.
This heavily reduces the lines of code we need to support multiple
platforms from a project perspective.
Addtiionally, this heavily improves our detection of libraries, etc.
Loïc Guilloux
dP
Michael Lutz
glx22
Charles Pigott
Patric Stout