[CMake] Trigger a build with CMake

Saad Khattak saadrustam at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 11:40:05 EDT 2013


Perfect. Thanks Leif!


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> cmake --build /path/to/build/dir [--target <target name>]
>
> I usually go to the build directory and type `cmake --build .`  You can
> pass extra options to the underlying build system by adding `--`
> afterwards, so if you are using, for example, the Makefile generator, you
> can build in parallel with `cmake --build . -- -j5`
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Saad Khattak <saadrustam at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now that I have a project up and running with CMake generated native
>> project files, can I trigger a build with CMake as well? That is, a
>> cross-platform way to trigger a build on the project without the need for
>> me to call 'msbuild' on windows for example?
>>
>> - Saad
>>
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> Leif
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