[CMake] What is the status of CMake on DJGPP?

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2006-11-16 08:42-0500 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Why would you need to build CMake with DJGPP?  Can you not use the 
>> windows binaries for cmake
>> to run the DJGPP compiler?   For example, CMake can not be built by 
>> watcom, but it can be used to build
>> projects that use the watcom compiler.
>
> I am completely unfamiliar with windows/DOS issues so this is pure
> speculation on my part, but the PLplot DJGPP developer may have been
> concerned that a windows binary might not work on DOS (the OS which is
> used by DJGPP).  For example, I assume a minimum requirement is that the
> windows executable is linked statically. Is that the case with the 
> windows
> binaries distributed with CMake?  Are there any other ways that windows
> executables are tied to the windows OS that would be a showstopper on 
> DOS?
>
> Anyhow, his first move was to try the bootstrap method, and it 
> obviously did
> not work.  I originally asked our DJGPP developer to give cmake a try
> because it would be good to get all our platform builds working under 
> CMake,
> but he is inexperienced with CMake and needs convincing on that issue. 
> Thus,
> if you are pretty sure that the windows binary for cmake should execute
> without any OS incompatibilities on DJGPP/DOS, please let me know.  Such
> reassurances should help motivate him to try some additional cmake
> experiments.
I really have never used DJGPP as well....   Maybe you can toss the 
question back to
the DJGPP developers.   Can you build a DOS executable with the MS compiler,
and if yes, are there special flags etc that you have to use.

-Bill