[CMake] generating VC projects

Yuri V. Timenkov ytimenkov at parallels.com
Mon Aug 4 03:03:07 EDT 2008


On Friday 01 August 2008 20:06:15 Hari Sundar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Cmake set up to generate project files for VC6. This works
> fine. The project can only be compiled with the VC6 compiler because
> of legacy code.
>
> What I am interested in is to know if it is possible to generate a VC
> 7,8,9 project using CMake, which will use the VC6 compiler ? Basically
> I want to use the more recent IDEs if possible ?
>
> Anyone have experience with this ?
I just generate 2 solutions, one for build, and the other one for editing and 
debugging.
Also, you may try using cross-compilation, but at now I'm personally avoid 
such cases, because they may lead to unpredictable, difficult to understand 
errors in runtime.

>
> thanks,
> ~Hari
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