[CMake] Selecing make tool

[J Decker]

Okay my complaint was an issue of upgrading without deleting
cmakecache.txt...

my android projects had an issue because of a new variable for
platform="windows" in cmakefiles/3.0.0 that didn't get set correctly
because again I didn't delete cmakecache


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:35 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I tell cmake to use 'msbuild' instead of 'devenv' as the build tool?
>
> Early in my scripts I used to do this bit....
>
> # set REAL_CMAKE_PROGRAM to what's in registry for msbuild
> set( CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM ${REAL_CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM} )
>
>
> Do Not use devenv
>    .... as a side effect for building, it logs in the registry as 'most
> recently used' which destroys history; if I was editing project 1 and 5 of
> 20 projects then when opening visual studio it would be nice to be able to
> reopen those to continue work in the IDE; but there's only a list of 10
> items, so 1 and 5 are no longer in the list of most recently used files.
>   ... was going to be an enumerated list but I forget other single points
> about that because I havent' had to deal with it for a year
>    ... I know you use devenv to support Fortran; but I'm not even sure
> vs2012++ even understand fortran; but definatly I will never have fortran
> code...
>
>
>
> I would like to specify to use msbuild instead of devenv; and setting
> cmake_make_program used to work.
>
>
>
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