[CMake] using cl.exe with GNU make

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Apr 5 08:57:47 EDT 2007


Michael Hufer wrote:
> We use cygwin, but that should be mostly the same:
>
> -- cmd.exe (or in our case cygwin bash)
> <set the variables so you can execute cl.exe from the cmd/bash shell>
> $ set CC=cl.exe
> $ set CXX=cl.exe
> $ cmakesetup
> ---
> in cmake setup: select build mode Unix Makefiles 
>                              and build mode (Debug or Release) 
> configure and create makefile(s)
> ---
> $ cd build/dir
> $ gmake install
> ---
>
> 	Michael.
>
> PS: For some reason a multible thread build (e.g. "gmake -j2 install") does 
> not work properly on Windows. It seems either gmake or the Visual Studio .NET 
> 2003 compiler or linker is producing rubish if more than one is invoked 
> simultanously ;-(.
>   
This works with VS 2005, or if you change the debug mode in VS 2003 to 
not use pdb files.
This is what I use most of the time.

Also Cygwin broke make to not work with windows paths which cl uses:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2006-August/010617.html

There is a fixed make here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe

-Bill





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