[CMake] Building a tool to run on the host when cross-compiling

[Pat Marion]

Hi Bill,

We use ExternalProject on the VES project to manage crosscompile builds.
We use ExternalProject to create builds for the host, Android, iOS-device,
and iOS-simulator architectures.

Pat

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> On 1/17/2013 5:01 PM, Christopher Lansing wrote:
>
>>
>> It definitely sounds like an interesting and promising combination. The
>> one snag I hit when I tried that was that the project I tried to use
>> through ExternalProject seemed to automatically pick up the toolchain
>> that I'd specified for the main project. If that's the way it works,
>> then I'm probably stuck.
>>
>> If there's a way to make it not do that, then I probably missed an
>> option somewhere. I'll have to play around with it some more and see if
>> I can find a way to make that work.
>>
> You should be able to force any values you need into the cache of the
> sub-projects and make it do whatever you need it to.
>
>
>
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