[CMake] cmakesetup.exe

[Bill Hoffman]

gga wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>   
>> Can you send a small example that does not work with nmake?
>>
>>     
>
> Not too small, I'm afraid.   Is it okay to post a zip to the list?  Or
> to send you one?
>
>   
You can send me something off the list.

> I think I'm running into 2 or 3 issues, from what I can tell from the
> verbose logs.  Here's what I have:
>
> Under NMake Makefiles (run from cmd.exe):
>
> - Linking fails on executable due to not finding WinMain, on even the
> simplest exe.  Unfortunately, VERBOSE=1 does not print the flags, but
> just a @%TMPDIR/ns.tmp file, which gets removed at the end, so I don't
> know what flags it is passing.
>   
That is not a cmake problem, that is a problem with your code.  You have 
specified a WIN32 executable
when you do not have one.

> - Linking is using the incorrect debug dll.
>
>   
nothing to do with nmake or not.
> - Many rules don't work, including make clean which fails with syntax
> error, due to illegal character '/' in macro.  This happens only when I
> have rules such as subdir/file, which work fine on unix.  So far, using
> rules such as this is the only way I found cmake to create proper
> out-of-source builds for nested projects.
>
>   
Are these custom commands?  Or is cmake generating invalid commands?

> Under Unix Makefiles (run from cygwin bash):
>
> - If creating a Unix Makefile with CXX and LD set to cl.exe and lib.exe,
> during the cmake steps, cmake complains about endianess not detected
> properly.
>
>   
LD should not need to be set.
CXX=cl
CC=cl
CMakeSetup
> - cl.exe obj files are incorrectly created with .o suffix.
>
>   
Should not happen if you do CXX=cl and CC=cl
> - Many rules don't work, including "make clean", where it complains with:
> 	 target pattern contains no "%".  Stop.
>
>   
I would have to see the CMakeLists.txt that caused this problem.

> Same thing on Linux works flawlessly, btw.
>   
Sounds like some non-portable custom commands are in the project. 

-Bill