[CMake] current (2.5) CMakeForceCompiler

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Mar 3 11:21:53 EST 2008


Yannick Cote wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> visiting http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling, I discovered
> a way to tell cmake not to test the C cross-compiler.
> 
> However the source tree has changed recently and including
> "CMakeForceCompiler" will not work anymore.
> 
> CMake Error: Do not include the CMakeForceCompiler module.  It is no
> longer necessary.  Update your toolchain file as follows.
> 
> I tried updating my Toolchain file as suggested but it ends up testing
> the compiler which wont work with the project I work on simply because
> the cross-compiler has to build source code from the project in order
> to link successfully a simple test program.
> 
> What's the current way of dealing with this situation ?

I had removed the old one because I though it was only for eCos which I 
got working without it.  Update from cvs.  There is a new 
CMakeForceCompiler there.  It doesn't have the sizeof(void*) argument, 
so just leave that off.

-Brad


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