[CMake] Adding configuration for a new compiler

[Bill Hoffman]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Zitat von Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>:
> 
>> Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>>> The C compiler test fails because CMake insists on createing  
>>> testCCompiler.c.r30  and there doesn't seem to be way to tell it to 
>>>  not include the source file name extension (here: .c) into the  
>>> object file name.
>>
>> It's undocumented because I didn't anticipate anyone would need to
>> change the default, but the variable is
>> "CMAKE_<lang>_OUTPUT_EXTENSION_REPLACE". Try adding
>>
>>   SET(CMAKE_C_OUTPUT_EXTENSION_REPLACE 1)
>>   SET(CMAKE_CXX_OUTPUT_EXTENSION_REPLACE 1)
>>
>> to your compiler configuration file.
> 
> That works, at least for the file name. There are some remaining 
> problems, though:
> That compiler can only handle Windows-like paths (it tries to be smart 
> but isn't) and thus only works with the "NMake Makefiles" generator. To 
> specify the output _directory_, the option -dir can be used and luckily, 
> cmake provides a <OBJECT_DIR>. However, the content of that is not a 
> Windows path but a cmake path (containing '/' instead of '\').
> Additionally, the compiler test assumes that the compiler creates the 
> directory itself (it doesn't) but that can be worked around in 
> CMAKE_C_COMPILE_OBJECT. Better would be to not assume that.
> 
So, does it work with the NMake Makefiles generator right now?



> It is possible to fix this for CMake-2.6?
> 
I am not even clear on what changes you need at this point...

-Bill