[CMake] Compiler varience?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Sep 9 14:40:08 EDT 2008


Preston A. Elder wrote:
> That does help a lot, but I think does not go quite far enough.
> 
> As I said, there are other things that need to be done such as:
> - Adjusting warning levels (CMAKE_WARN_LEVEL=(None|Full|Standard) )
> - Forcing a 32-bit or 64-bit compile
> - Allowing for platform-specific builds if possible (ie. don't maintain
> i386 compatibility, compile specifically for i686).
> 
> Most of these can be done in all supported compilers, but the flags for
> doing so are different per-compiler.  Since the Platform directory
> exists (thanks for pointing it out, I didn't see it before), is there
> any thoughts on an effort to expand this to more than just optimization
> and debug flags?
> 

I can not seem to find the bug entry, but there is a long term goal of 
having a more feature based set of options.  Things like 
CMAKE_WARN_LEVEL.  Brad King might want to comment more on this, but the 
short answer is yes, but it is a ways off.

-Bill


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