[CMake] [mingw + cmake] Porting code from mac os x to windows

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:01:41AM -0400, cmake-request at cmake.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:20:57 +0200
> From: Jean-Philippe Doyon <doyonjea at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CMake] [mingw + cmake] Porting code from mac os x to windows
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> Dear all,
> 
>         I use mingw to port my code from mac to windows. For that, I
> have to indicate the compiler used by cmake to that of mingw.
> That is set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to "i386-mingw32-g++" (which compiles a
> binary for windows). You can see the command and the error below.
> 
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/local/install/bpp/windows -
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/local/i386-mingw32-4.3.0/bin/i386-mingw32-g++

Would possibly be useful to specify the second variable via -D, too :)

HTH,

Andreas Mohr