[CMake] Using cmake without a C compiler?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Sep 1 16:20:57 EDT 2005


Kriss wrote:
> Is there a way of turning off the check for a C compiler?
> 
> I just setup a non C project using cmake and although I have a compiler 
> available to keep cmake happy it would be nice if it could be used 
> without that dependency on other machines.
> 
> I had a poke around and couldn't see anything.

The PROJECT command accepts the list of languages, so you can for 
example use only C and not C++:

PROJECT(FOO C)

There was a time when one could do

PROJECT(FOO NONE)

but it looks like this has been broken.  Please submit a feature request 
here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

-Brad


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