[CMake] CMake and multiple Microsoft compilers on windows

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Mar 20 16:32:55 EDT 2009


John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you use the IDE generators for CMake, you do not need to modify the
>>> environment at all.  It is only when using nmake or make, that you need an
>>> environment that is setup to run the compiler.   If you do want to use
>>> nmake, VS 2003 and above have command prompts that can be found in the
>>> "Visual Studio Tools" menu of the Start menu.   Just run the one you want,
>>> then run cmake-gui from the command line:  c:\Program Files\CMake
>>> 2.6\bin\cmake-gui.
>>>
>> But then with this setup cmake-2.6.3 is scanning my vc6 headers and
>> libs to generate vc2005 projects.
>>
> 
> This has not caused me any problems but I am unsure if checks like
> partial template specification are being used or is this part of cmake
> not really used if I use the .sln and vcproj that cmake generates?
> 

You lost me...  Why is anything scanning the incorrect headers????


-Bill


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