[CMake] Visual Studio Cross Compile

[Michael Jäntsch]

Hi again, 

Is there nobody who can help me? I thought it would be a common thing to use cmake to cross compile!? Has nobody ever used visual studio to do so? 

Cheers
Michael 


Am 29. Oktober 2015 15:21:41 MEZ, schrieb Michael Jaentsch <michael.jaentsch at in.tum.de>:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a question concerning Cross Compiling with CMake on Windows. I 
>would like to use Visual Studio but this is not a must. What I do is, I
>
>setup a project for Cross Compiling on Linux and it works fine. Now I 
>want to transfer to Windows, so I set up a toolchain file which sets
>the 
>following variables:
>CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME
>CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR
>CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
>CMAKE_C_COMPILER
>CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
>
>and some more stuff. Then I run my cmake gui (I tried 3.2 and 3.4rc2) 
>on Windows and tell it to generate a project for Visual Studio 10 and
>to 
>use the toolchain file. However, the output shows that it is trying to 
>use the Visual Studio compiler and then subsequently the build fails 
>because of some unkown compiler flags.
>
>So my question is: Is it even possible to do what I'm trying to do? Can
>
>I cross compile with Visual Studio or do I have to use a different 
>generator? All I found in the documentation is that it is possible to 
>cross compile with a toolchain file...
>
>Cheers
>Michael
>
>
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