[CMake] CMake and multiple Microsoft compilers on windows

[Bill Hoffman]

John Drescher wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>> You lost me...  Why is anything scanning the incorrect headers????
>>
> When I run cmake-gui from the link on my desktop and select vc2005 as
> the compiler for the project it shows me in the debug output window of
> cmake-gui that it is using VC6 as the compiler and doing tests for crt
> functionality, templates and stl ... All of this appears to be done on
> the VC6 libraries and headers and not the vs2005 ones.
> 

If you select "Visual Studio 8 2005" as a generator, it should not use 
VC6.   Please make sure you start with an empty binary directory, with 
no CmakeCache.txt file.

-Bill