[CMake] Eclipse CMake Generator - Pre-Alpha version

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Jul 31 11:01:50 EDT 2007


Mike Jackson wrote:
> Eclipse CDT only supports MinGW on Windows so the fact that it is 
> broken for Cygwin is no surprise. CDT does NOT support nmake at this 
> time because there would be no way to debug the code after it was 
> compiled. There was discussion about this on the CDT newsgroup 
> (nntp://news.eclipse.org on the eclipse.tools.cdt newsgroup). 
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg13757.html
>
> So I would guess that MS tool chain support would probably never be 
> properly supported. This should not stop you from having cmake create 
> nmake files and having CDT call nmake on your files. That _might_ 
> work.. Never tried it.
>
> --Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
> Innovative Management & Technology Services
You can have the MS tool chain supported with gmake.  That is what I use 
most of the time.  nmake does not do parallel builds.
You set your compiler to cl and use "Unix Makefiles".


-Bill



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