[CMake] How can I tell the ninja generator on Windows to use cl.exe?

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/12/2012 6:00 AM, Nico Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I installed MinGW, `cmake -G Ninja` started producing ninja files
> that use MinGW's gcc to compile source files. How can I tell cmake to
> generate ninja files that use cl.exe instead?
>
> I tried searching for "cmake ninja mingw msvs" and a few related
> terms, but I didn't find anything.
>
Set CC and CXX to cl in the environment before running cmake.  You will 
also of course need to be running from a shell where cl is configured to 
run from the command line.

-Bill