[CMake] Thoughts on Cross-compiling with CMake

[Kishore, Jonnalagadda (IE10)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces+kishore.jonnalagadda=honeywell.com at cmake.org
> [mailto:cmake-bounces+kishore.jonnalagadda=honeywell.com at cmake.org] On
> Behalf Of Alexander Neundorf
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:21 PM
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Thoughts on Cross-compiling with CMake
> 
> > > main CVS tree (I use Subversion) and this forum, I assume the
> developers
> > > hang out here?
> >
> > I too think that the developers are actively reading this list,
maybe
> they
> > can utilise Your patches for the next version.
> 
> Yes, we'll do so (/me being a cmake developer for the next few months)
:-)
> I'm starting to add cross compiling support to cmake right now and
will
> reuse
> the patches in the next days.
> The first step will be to let the user specify the compiler/target
> platform he
> wants to build for without the cmake automatic detection. This will
> require
> almost only changes in the script files.

It is really nice to know that there is now active development for
supporting cross-compiling. May I also suggest that it be made possible
to make the generators aware of this such that one could create a visual
studio (and may be eclipse) project with the cross-compiler settings.
This is probably not a problem for KDevelop as it is just a front end to
other command line tools.

I can contribute in testing. My setup requires me to work with several
processors and multiple compilers for each architecture.

Regards,
Kishore