[CMake] CMake on Linux + Playstation 3 (IBM Cell BE processor)

[Brandon Van Every]

On Dec 30, 2007 3:19 PM, Christian Convey <christian.convey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A Cell processor has one PowerPC core, plus 8 "SPE" cores (only 6 are
> available on a Playstation 3).  You need a different compiler for each
> core type.
>
> Also, there are several different ways that all of that can be linked
> together into a single program.
>
> I probably can coax Cmake into handling this, so I may have misspoken
> when I asked about making CMake *capable* of building these programs.
> I probably should have asked about making it support, out of the box,
> the building of such programs using trivially simple CMakeLists.txt
> files.

I would assume that Linux tool ports just use the PowerPC core.
Getting the 8 SPE cores to be utilized is quite an extension of scope
and rather application specific.  I would say you should handle those
with ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND, at least until you work out what a "standard"
paradigm should look like.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every