[CMake] How to find out the compiler directory?

Steven Van Ingelgem steven at vaningelgem.be
Sun Dec 30 12:09:49 EST 2007


It's because CMake get the values from the registry ;-). So it's not
known in the command line, but it's known to CMake... As opposed to
*NIX, Windows is not 100% (insert a lot of healthy sarcasm) command
line oriented.

On 12/30/07, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007, Steven Van Ingelgem wrote:
> > Very true indeed, but that was not the point of me asking the question.
> >
> > The point is that CMake knows somehow where the compiler is (it's not
> > in the path), but it doesn't allow me to make use of that knowledge.
> >
> > For instance I want to use the assembler, but I (as a program) don't
> > know where it is (I as a person do of course). I know it's in the same
> > dir as "cl", but no variable tells me where "cl" is...
>
> I think cmake doesn't know.
> Are you using the makefile generator or the MSVC generator ?
> In both cases it's not required.
> FIND_PRGRAM(CL_EXE cl) doesn't work ?
> It should (otherwise the environment doesn't seem to be set up as required,
> but I'm no expert on the Windows side).
>
> Alex
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