[CMake] external tools in visual studio

[th.tom at gmx.de]

> > I have to revoke my last information. It does not work at least with a
> Visual Studio 2003 Project. Here, the system PATH is ignored.
> >
> > When I use an nmake makefile on the visual studio command line promt, it
> works fine - What is really kind of weird.
> >
> > Is there another way to tell visual studio where to search for
> programms?
> 
> I do no think it's necessary because we DO build CERTI (refered before)
> using Gnuwin32 flex/bison/m4 with Visual Studio 2003 without trouble.
> 
> May be you have setup a particular option of Visual which makes it
> "forget" the PATH?

What I once read is, that visual studio creates a snapshot of the PATH variable, when it is installed. So when your PATH has the GnuTools path included and VS is installed, it is available. 

However, i could not find out any other reason, so this might be true!? 
 
> I did not face the Visual Studio vs Nmake behaviour discrepancy,
> but I'm really  not an expert in this area.

Me neither - I love to have a linux/unix shell ;-)
 
> Did you try your build on another machine equipped with Visual Studio
> 2003?

I will give this piece of software to someone for testing that.

Thanks for the answer!

- tom