[CMake] CMake and multiple Microsoft compilers on windows

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 15:52:28 EDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you use the IDE generators for CMake, you do not need to modify the
>> environment at all.  It is only when using nmake or make, that you need an
>> environment that is setup to run the compiler.   If you do want to use
>> nmake, VS 2003 and above have command prompts that can be found in the
>> "Visual Studio Tools" menu of the Start menu.   Just run the one you want,
>> then run cmake-gui from the command line:  c:\Program Files\CMake
>> 2.6\bin\cmake-gui.
>>
>
> But then with this setup cmake-2.6.3 is scanning my vc6 headers and
> libs to generate vc2005 projects.
>

This has not caused me any problems but I am unsure if checks like
partial template specification are being used or is this part of cmake
not really used if I use the .sln and vcproj that cmake generates?

John


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