[cmake-developers] Making GUI applications by default

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 2/19/2012 4:57 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> I've implemented this in my gitorious clone:
>>
>> https://gitorious.org/~steveire/cmake/steveires-
cmake/commits/executable_gui-property
>>
>> I am not sure whether you want getting the EXECUTABLE_GUI property to
>> work for the cross-platform abstraction too.
> 
> Thanks for working on this.
> 
> The implementation is not what I had in mind when I said "implies"
> the platform-specific property.  This should be its own property
> that one can set/get normally with no special C++-implemented
> mapping to the other two properties.  The generators should look
> for this property first and only if not set look for the platform-
> specific property.  If either is set the effect is the same.

I see. That's a bit more painful. That will mean touching all generators, 
and I don't have the easy visual studio or mac access to implement or test 
them.

Thanks,

Steve.