[CMake] Calling NMake from CMake

[David Cole]

You could use:

  BUILD_COMMAND nmake /f makefile.vc
  BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1

in your ExternalProject_Add call.

"nmake" is already available from within the Visual Studio environment.

Of course, if your project is cross-platform, you'll have to conditionalize
this so that it only happens when using a Visual Studio or NMake generator.


HTH,
David


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Brian J. Davis <bitminer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Since I do not see a FindNmake or the likes, is there a way to call Nmake
> from a CMakeLists.txt file?
>
> The root CMakeList.txt file contains:
>
> set( LIBTIFF_CONFIGURE_FILE ${TOP}/CMake/libtiff/**CMakeLists.txt.config )
> configure_file( ${LIBTIFF_CONFIGURE_FILE} ${SOURCE_DIR}/libtiff/**CMakeLists.txt.config
> )
>
> externalproject_add(
>  libtiff
>  URL http://download.osgeo.org/**libtiff/tiff-4.0.2.zip<http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.2.zip>
>  DOWNLOAD_DIR ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}
>  SOURCE_DIR ${SOURCE_DIR}/libtiff
>  INSTALL_DIR ${INSTALL_DIR}
>
> )
>
> Where the configure_file dumps a CMakeLists.txt file wich is generated
> form CMakeLists.txt.config into the libtiff source directory so that
> ExternalProject_Add has a CMakeLIsts.txt file.  It is in this
> CMakeLists.txt file that I need to spawn the build for libtiff such as:
>
> nmake /f makefile.vc
>
> Though CMake does not seem to support nmake calls from CMakeLists.txt
> files configured to generate VisualStudio Build Files.  Basically I want a
> visual studio target to build libtiff using nmake.  How does one do this?
>
> I have been able to do this for zlib, and libpng
>
> There are a myriad of projects all with their each flavor of building
> their source which I need to build.  it's a regular potpourii of source
> build scents and not in a good way.
>
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