[CMake] How to set own linker?

[Martin Kupke]

If I am using  a cross linker, mine is the dld.exe..
How do I incorporate it into the CMake process?
As I could figure out CMake assumes that the compiler itself will do the linking.


On 22.09.11 18:09, Martin Kupke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a toolchain file for cross compiling in my Windows XP
> environment.
> To provide cross compiling functionality I set the CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME to
> Generic.
> The toolchain file contains the variables:
> CMAKE_C_COMPILER set to my own wanted compiler, which is dcc.exe
> CMAKE_ASM_OCU_COMPILER set to my own wanted assembler, which is das.exe
> For both, assembler and compiler I created configuration files in the
> Platform folder.
> Up to this point everything goes fine and as wanted, the assembler
> source files with the .s extension are compiled with das.exe and the C
> source files with the extension .c are compiled with the dcc.exe.
>
> In the root top level CMakeLists.txt the instruction
> project( EmbeddedProject C ASM_OCU)
> ensures that only C compiler and ASM_OCU assembler are called (no CXX).
>
> Even in the root top level CMakeLists.txt I set
> add_executable( ${PROJECT_NAME} ${SourceFiles} )
> where SourceFiles is a string containing all source files (assembler and C).
>
> I even tried to set the CMAKE_LINKER variable to my own linker, but it
> isn't used.
> Where is my fault?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin...
>
>
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