[cmake-developers] [CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-11-05 14:36, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 November 2013, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin wrote:
>> Would it makes sense to have cmake-gui behaving like ccmake ? After all
>> there are both "UI".
>>
>> It would accept the same set of options:
>>     [...]
>>    -G <generator-name> = Specify a makefile generator.
>>    -T <toolset-name>   = Specify toolset name if supported by  generator.
>
> Not sure about these two. I have to select them anyway when starting
> configure, I don't see much value in overriding this from the command line.

Specifying them on the command line would allow you to skip the GUI 
dialog to select them.

-- 
Matthew