[CMake] Visual Studio generator missing

[Brandon Van Every]

On 6/25/07, Joshua Jensen <jjensen at workspacewhiz.com> wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
> >  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?

Anything compiled with cygwin1.dll is GPLed.  The -mno_cygwin option
is possible to avoid this, but few people attempt it in practice, so
builds often just fall apart.  I don't know how dependent CMake is on
cygwin1.dll's Unix compatibility layer.

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every