[CMake] CMake and multiple Microsoft compilers on windows

[Bill Hoffman]

John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:42 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> I just created a new build tree selected vs2005 and it still used the
>> vc6 compiler:
>>
> Attached is a screen shot. The folder X:/temp/Test did not exist
> before I ran cmake.
> 
OK, I am pretty sure (99.9%) it is not actually using that compiler for 
the tests.  The CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER value is not actually used by the 
visual studio IDE projects.  However, that does seem to be some 
disturbing output....  I need to change the platform files so that the 
cl full path is not searched for.  Please create a bug report.

If you want to prove it to yourself you can run cmake with 
--debug-trycompile and look at the projects it is using for trycompiles.



-Bill