[CMake] Proposal for new generator options

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 17:08:42 EST 2010


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jochen Wilhelmy <j.wilhelmy at arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I would suspect that most users use the default values. I pretty much
>> go with the defaults with the addition of adding the /MP parameter
>> inside my main CMakeLists.txt file.
>
> If you are the author of some software then this is fine. But I have the
> case where I have
> to use some existing visual studio projects using /MT and a cmake project,
> both of which
> I am not the maintainer and therefore changes cannot be made. So it was
> quite complicated
> to get it working.
>
> But what is against my proposal of splitting the -G option? for visual
> studio there are
> two more platforms except Win32 and Win64, some smartphone and mobile stuff.
> So the number of generators will explode anyway. with four versions and four
> platforms
> this are a whopping number of 16 generators for visual studio alone.
>

You may be able to get this approved if you file a bug report and
possibly provide a patch for this. It actually should not be that hard
to implement however I assume developers have much higher priorities
than this.

John


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