[CMake] Building CMake on Windows

[David Cole]

Steve, let me guess: the group you care about, who can't/won't install
binaries or allow binaries in the source tree, is using Visual Studio on
Windows... right? :-)


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> steve naroff wrote:
>
>> The 'Readme.txt' for the Windows source distribution says:
>>
>> "You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to
>> build CMake."
>>
>> Unlike UNIX/Mac, the Windows source can't be bootstrapped...
>>
>> I assume the Readme.txt is accurate? Any plans to change this?
>>
>>  No plans to change this.  I just can not see a use case where it would
> make it worth while to maintain a bootstrap build file for CMake.  You can
> always bootstrap CMake from a previous version, and we even create nightly
> binaries.  If I was to do some sort of bootstrap, I would just include some
> version of the cmake binary with the CMake source.  In the far distant past
> we had an nmake file, but that was 8 or so years ago... I don't see it
> coming back again... :)
>
> -Bill
>
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