Don't know about the watcom stuff but as for this: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 07:03:14PM -0800, J Decker wrote: > Is there really only a set of CMAKE_C_FLAGS_ and _CXX_FLAGS_? no > companion _LD_FLAGS_ ? Properties rather than global variables but is this what you mean? http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#prop_tgt:LINK_FLAGS tyler