[CMake] Windows CMake under cygwin

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Mar 27 13:17:36 EDT 2008


Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Hi People,
> 
> Due to some project specific constrains, I need to use cmake within 
> cygwin but to compile using Visual C++ via nmake.
> Since the cygwin cmake doesn't support nmake I must use the windows 
> cmake binary, but naturally knowing that I am running under cygwin.
> 

Can you explain better what you are trying to do?

If you are going to use visual C++, then you can run cmake from a cygwin 
shell and create nmake files no problem.  I do this all the time.  What 
is it that you want to do with cygwin from visual stuido C++?

-Bill


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