[CMake] Choosing the right compiler

[J Decker]

One way would be to setup a build environment batch, which would set
the path to only have one or the other. but that's certainly not a
shorter method :)

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> On a machine with both MinGW and VS installed, some generators (Ninja,
> for instance) will use MinGW by default. The only way I know of
> instructing cmake to use VS instead is
>
> cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=cl -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=cl ...
>
> This is quite verbose and triggers some bugs.
>
> Is there a cleaner way to tell cmake to use VS instead of MinGW with a
> given generator?
>
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