[CMake] cross-compiling: Add Support for IAR compiler

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 22 July 2010, Hassan Mansouri wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to do cross-compiling with CMake for IAR compiler (ARM).
> My main problem with the current CMake 2.8.2 is the complain about -c 
> option from IAR compiler. IAR compiler does not accept -c as input C  file
> and the sysntax is CC <filename>.c [options]. How can I tell  CMake not to
> put -c when calling the external compiler when it's IAR?
>
> There is a link for supporting IAR compiler in CMake at:
> http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10176 but I don't know how to apply
> the changes.
> Can anybody tell me what is the conclusion and how can I apply the required
> patches to CMake? This discussion is for CMake 2.6, is this fixed in newer
> version of CMake?

I plan to finish the work on this in the next weeks, and I'm happy if you can 
help me with that. Let's continue the discussion in the bugtracker in the 
next days.

Alex