[CMake] project() command and make targets

[Robert Dailey]

Thanks Bill, I really don't know squat about Linux/Make/NMake -- so
this is helpful.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/2012 7:17 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>>
>> For some reason I was expecting names specified in project() command
>> to become a custom target that I can invoke with nmake on Windows, and
>> it would build any projects under it (this is especially useful for
>> multiple executables, such as maybe a suite of tools. The only other
>> alternative I see is to invoke nmake for each executable one by one,
>> or create a new custom target that depends on all of those
>> executables, and invoke that instead.
>>
>> Is there a reason why I can't invoke my projects (defined with
>> project() command) as targets with nmake?
>
> With the makefiles you can just cd into the directory and type nmake or
> make, and it will build those targets (and ones they depend on).
>
> -Bill
>
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