[CMake] How to build ccmake.exe on Windows?

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the root CMakeLists.txt in cmake, there is no way to do this on
> Windows. I'll probably have to build it through Cygwin itself, assuming UNIX
> is truthy when using Cygwin.
>   # Use curses?
>   IF (UNIX)
>     # there is a bug in the Syllable libraries which makes linking ccmake
> fail, Alex
>     IF(NOT "${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" MATCHES syllable)
>       SET(CURSES_NEED_NCURSES TRUE)
>       FIND_PACKAGE(Curses QUIET)
>       IF (CURSES_LIBRARY)
>         OPTION(BUILD_CursesDialog "Build the CMake Curses Dialog ccmake" ON)
>       ELSE (CURSES_LIBRARY)
>         MESSAGE("Curses libraries were not found. Curses GUI for CMake will
> not be built.")
>         SET(BUILD_CursesDialog 0)
>       ENDIF (CURSES_LIBRARY)
>     ELSE(NOT "${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" MATCHES syllable)
>       SET(BUILD_CursesDialog 0)
>     ENDIF(NOT "${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" MATCHES syllable)
>   ELSE (UNIX)
>     SET(BUILD_CursesDialog 0)
>   ENDIF (UNIX)
> ---------
> Robert Dailey
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using Cygwin with the MSVC toolchain and I need ccmake.exe. I can't
>> use the one from the Cygwin package manager because it's older than the
>> version I'm using. I'd like to build it myself through Visual Studio like I
>> did with cmake and cmake-gui if possible. Any help?
>>

BTW, there is a cmake in cygwin setup. I believe it is recommended to
use that instead of the windows cmake.exe

John