[CMake] Supporting the Intel Compiler -- building static libraries

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Apr 18 10:18:48 EDT 2008


David Cole wrote:
> This is one of those things where you have to have the setting right 
> before any possible TRY_COMPILE actions in any CMakeLists files. It's 
> *conceptually* equivalent to changing the compiler.
> 
> What you tried by using -DCMAKE_AR should work if you start with an 
> empty binary tree. (And starting with an empty binary tree is a 
> reasonable thing to do when essentially everything needs to be rebuilt 
> anyway.)
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 

This should go in the Platforms directory, in the intel compiler file. 
Much like sun CC uses CC -ar to create archives.

-Bill


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