[CMake] OS X architecture changes interfere with CheckTypeSize()?

[Michael Jackson]

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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> The problem is more fundamental. If you set CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES  
>> to e.g. i386;x86_64;ppc;ppc64 to compile a four-way universal  
>> binary, what is the expected result from CheckTypeSize() and  
>> similar functions? There should be one result for each of the  
>> architectures. That's why you need to do it at compile-time using  
>> __i386__, __x86_64__, __ppc__ and __ppc64__, or you test the length  
>> of the CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES list and if that is larger than one,  
>> you error out. IMHO CMake can't help you much beyond that.
>
> Didn't we have this discussion for Windows as well?
> Seems like a fundamental problem.
>
> Olaf

No we didn't. And no, it is not the same problem. Windows compiles a  
single architecture at a time.

Mike J.