[CMake] FW: Visual Studio 2017

[Randy Heiland]

I'd love to learn more about this option, assuming it's a simple workflow
via the command line. If there's a writeup related to cmake, would welcome
a pointer. If you can't tell, I'm not really a Windows guy; I'm just trying
to support that community. Hopefully what you're describing would not
require a user having to fiddle with their PATH env var.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Hendrik Sattler <post at hendrik-sattler.de>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 19. September 2017 17:51:31 MESZ schrieb Randy Heiland <
> randy.heiland at gmail.com>:
> >I failed to send my previous reply to the list - see below for that.
> >This
> >is a follow-on, using the repo mentioned previously.
> >
> >--- Attempt #1
> >
> >#   Pointing out that my Command Prompt shell doesn't need to know
> >about
> >the 'cl' compiler, in order to run cmake:
> >C:\Users\Owner\dev\cmake_learn\cmake_learn-master\build>cl
> >'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >operable program or batch file.
> >
> >
> >C:\Users\Owner\dev\cmake_learn\cmake_learn-master\build>cmake ..
> >-- Building for: Visual Studio 15 2017
> >-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.11.25508.2
> >-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.11.25508.2
> >-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> >Visual
> >Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.11.25503/bin/HostX86/x86/cl.exe
> >-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> >Visual
> >Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.11.25503/bin/HostX86/x86/cl.exe
> >--
> >works
> >-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> >-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> >-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> >Visual
> >Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.11.25503/bin/HostX86/x86/cl.exe
> >-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft
> >Visual
> >Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.11.25503/bin/HostX86/x86/cl.exe
> >--
> >works
> >-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> >-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> >-- Detecting CXX compile features
> >-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
> >-- Found OpenMP_C: -openmp (found version "2.0")
> >-- Found OpenMP_CXX: -openmp (found version "2.0")
> >-- Configuring done
> >-- Generating done
> >-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/Owner/dev/cmake_learn
> >/cmake_learn-master/build
> >
> >This successfully builds the following files, but no Makefile so that I
> >can
> >simply run 'nmake' from the command line:
>
> Maybe you should realize that any purposed use of nmake is outdated by
> years. You can build .sln files from command line just fine. CMake even
> wraps the command with --build option.
>
> Only use nmake when you have no other options.
>
> HS
>
> --
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> gesendet.
>
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