[CMake] Determine if generator is Visual Studio

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Robert Dailey<rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:13 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Dailey<rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there a clean and compact way I can find out if Visual Studio targets
>> > are
>> > being built? Note that I want to be able to check this regardless of the
>> > version. I know I can check CMAKE_GENERATOR, but I would end up having
>> > to
>> > check around 8 strings for all possible versions of visual studio. Is
>> > there
>> > a cleaner way?
>>
>> if (MSVC)
>> endif(MSVC)
>
> Ah, I posted too early :)
> Thank you for this. I can't believe I missed this in the docs!

I make a lot of use of the wiki

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables

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John M. Drescher