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

[Blezek, Daniel J., Ph.D.]

Hi David, Bill,

  Hmm, I must have made a mistake yesterday, I thought I started with a
clean directory.  Worked fine this morning.

  Would be helpful to have the Intel compiler supported out of the box.

  However, I also found a flag (-ipo_obj) that allows the Intel Compiler
to play nice with ar.

-dan

   

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:19 AM
To: David Cole
Cc: Blezek, Daniel J., Ph.D.; cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] Supporting the Intel Compiler -- building static
libraries

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