[CMake] TRY_COMPILE help...

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Wed Aug 5 16:47:51 EDT 2009


On Monday 27 July 2009, Ashwin Chandra wrote:
> I am using a custom compiler and during the initialization of CMake, the
> CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake is invoked which tries to compile a simple
> program. However the compile fails it is because of the flags passed to
> the compiler.
>
> For example, the command line that is generated by CMake is:
>
> "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\COMPUW~1\NMShared\NMcl.exe  $(C_DEFINES)
> $(C_FLAGS) -o CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj   -c
> C:\trunk\Debug\wxp_x86\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\testCCompiler.c"
>
> The "-o" should be a "-Fo", otherwise the object file generated is not
> of the form "testCCompiler.c.obj".
>
> Is there anyway to tell CMake to use "-Fo" instead of "-o"? Or perhaps
> disable the Test?

Is this a special edition of the MS cl.exe ?
Can you please post the full output of the cmake run ?

Thanks
Alex


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