[CMake] generating GNU makefiles for MSVC

[Ben Ratzlaff]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Randal Walser <randal-walser at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Can anyone tell me how I can use cmake to generate GNU makefiles which
>  invoke the MSVC compiler?  The Cygwin version of cmake seems to insist
>  on gcc.  Likewise, when I specify "Unix Makefiles" to CMakeSetup, it
>  resets the compiler to gcc after I've set it to cl.  Perhaps I'm
>  overlooking something, but I don't see anything that specifically
>  addresses this in the online cmake documentation.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Randal
>
>  P.S. I'm not trying to generate Visual Studio projects; only GNU
>  makefiles.
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I have not gotten the Cygwin CMake to work well (its been a year since
I last tried) with Visual Studio. I have to download the one from
cmake.org. Then I use the following commands from a shell script

#!/bin/tcsh -f
cmd /C "vcvars32.bat && cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ."
cmd /C "vcvars32.bat && nmake"

I have vcvars32.bat in my PATH, and Visual Studio 2005 installed.

Hope this helps