[CMake] Visual Studio generator and cross-compilation

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 03 February 2008, Emmanuel Blot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does cmake (2.5 pre) support generation of build files for Visual
> Studio (2008 if that matters) projects for cross-compiling to a
> different OS/CPU (needs: eCos/ARM).
>
> It seems that when such a generator is selected, CMake simply ignores
> the "force compiler" directives and select CL as the compiler, whereas
> the CMake file project does specify an alternate compiler (arm-elf-gcc
> in my example).
>
> Is there any method to tell CMake to generate the IDE files for use
> with Visual Studio, but to create regular makefiles such as with the
> "Unix Makefiles" target, so that Visual Studio can launch a cross-
> compilation session ?

This is currently not supported for the MSVC generator.
How about using Eclipse and the CMake Eclipse generator ?
It currently has issues with out-of-source builds, but as long as you use the 
Eclipse generator with in-source builds it should work nicely :-)

Alex