[CMake] Thoughts on Cross-compiling with CMake

Trevor Kellaway tkellaway at asl-electronics.co.uk
Mon May 7 06:39:06 EDT 2007


Kishore, 

> > You need to make the distinction between the different styles of
> build:
> > 
> >  1) Command line makefile
> >  2) IDE invoked internal build
> >  3) IDE invoked external makefile
> > 
> > VC supports all three of these usage patterns for its 
> native compiler.
> > However, if you want to use a cross-compiler then only 
> options 1 and 3 
> > are available.
> 
> I just checked with some people using VS for cross-compiling. 
> Common practice here is method 3 mentioned above. A plugin 
> has been developed for error parsing and code navigation. 
> This method is good enough.
> Method 1 seems to be possible. Is method 3 possible with CMake.

I haven't tried, but if you create a wrapper Makefile where Visual
Studio expects its external makefile I can't see why it won't work.

 - TrevK


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