[CMake] Visual Studio generator missing

[Joshua Jensen]

Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Kovarththanan Rajaratnam wrote:
>> To compare things, I've downloaded the Windows version and it seems 
>> to list all the Visual Studio generators. Would I have to compile my 
>> own version of CMake under Cygwin? If so, do I need to pass special 
>> parameters to ensure that the Visual Studio generators are included?
> Unfortunately, because of the cygwin library the cygwin cmake is a 
> different binary than the windows binary.   The main technical reason 
> for this is the cygwin path stuff, like /cygdrive and other mount 
> points.   There are license issues as well.    The windows cygwin 
> maybe right for you if you want both.  The Unix Makefiles generator 
> should work for the cygwin gcc. 
What are the license issues?

Thanks.

Josh