[Cmake] Using Cross GCC with VC++ ide

[Bill Hoffman]

I think I understand now.   Real cross compiling support is on the board for development.
When we get around to it, I will be sure to contact you for your input.  Right now I think it would
be a bit premature to add this to the main cvs tree of CMake.   Keep us posted on how
well it is working for you.

Thanks.


-Bill
  

At 06:48 AM 6/17/2003, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>The dependency part I have implemented and its
>working correctly now.
>
>As I mentioned earlier, we use a the GCC cross compiler
>and VC++ IDE for browsing and editing. Till now
>we have been using commercial VC++ plugin which would
>set the appropriate environment so that VC++ would invoke
><target>-gcc and other tools(<target>-linker etc). To do
>the same with CMake I need to write <target>.cmake which
>is similar to Modules\Platform\Windows-cl.cmake and redefines
>all the cache variables as desired. The example of this would
>be: sparclet-aout.cmake
>
>
>INCLUDE(${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/Platform/gcc.cmake)
>
>SET (CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL msdev CACHE INTERNAL 
>     "What is the target build tool cmake is generating for.")
>
>SET (CMAKE_SYSTEM "Win32" CACHE INTERNAL 
>     "What system is this.  Result of uname.")
>
>SET (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER  sparclet-aout-g++ CACHE STRING 
>     "Name of C++ compiler used.")
>
>SET (CMAKE_C_COMPILER  sparclet-aout-gcc CACHE STRING 
>     "Name of C compiler used.")
>
>...
>...
>
>I would include this file in all my projects at top level.
>
>Others who want to use CMake for some other cross development
>on Win with VC++ only needs to write <target>.cmake say for
>arm-elf-gcc  they need to write arm-elf.cmake and CMake would
>oblige with appropriate DSPs and DSWs. [Ofcourse CMake would
>emit CUSTOM BUILD for each source file in DSPs.]
>
>Would CMake community like to checkin these changes in mainline
>too? May be in some major release as suggested by you!
>
>Regards,
>Nitin