[CMake] Start compiles with cmake platform independently?

[Filipe Sousa]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 10:15, wedekind wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> CMake is a great Makefile-generator :) I do not know whether I have
> understood its purpose correctly, but is it possible to start compiles with
> cmake too? Cmake "knows" the compiler/maketool of the platform and all the
> flags and stuff. So it should only be logical to use cmake to run a build,
> right? It would make build-scripts more portable since they only need to
> call "cmake CMakeLists.txt" or something like that to build a project on
> different platforms...
>
> What is your opinion about it? I should add that I am new to cmake and do
> not know all the details yet, what about this TRY_COMPILE-instruction? When
> is it called? Do you have an example which illustrates the use of this
> feature?

http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Tests/TryCompile/?root=CMake

> Thanks
>
> Marco
>
>
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Filipe Sousa
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