[CMake] Visual Studio command line from CMake

[J Decker]

cmake --build

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
> Short version:
>
> Does anyone have an elegant way to launch the visual studio command line
> from within CMake?
>
> James Bigler asked essentially this question back in March of 2011.  David
> responded with a link to a Blog entry, but I haven't figured out how to
> translate that into something that works.
>
> The 'vcvarsall.bat' program that comes with Visual Studio will launch the
> command line with the full environment set.
>
> Once I find vcvarsall, I then need to launch something in it -- and pass
> parameters to that thing.  All from within ExternalProject_Add.  For now,
> one step at a time...
>
> Long version:
>
> I'm trying to encapsulate the build of FLTK as an ExternalProject in CMake.
> One way or the other, it needs to work for Visual Studio on Windows, and gcc
> and llvm on Linux/MacOS.
>
> Although FLTK has a CMake build system, it is currently unmaintained (broken
> on at least some platforms), and none of the core FLTK developers use it, so
> I don't see this situation improving.
>
> I've got a ./configure based system working for Linux/MacOS.
>
> One of the FLTK developers maintains an unofficial Makefile setup for
> FLKT/Visual Studio that must be run from the Visual Studio command prompt.
> Hence my question...
>
> http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/tmp/vsnet-makefiles.0.85.zip
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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