[CMake] is it worth using cmake to cross-compile for embedded arm device?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Gunter, Walter E wrote:
> I am having some troubles getting cmake setup and wonder if cmake is the
> right tool.
> Thoughts? Suggestions?

Yes, it is. I do it basically every day. Read my advise and properly set up a 
toolchain file, that is very likely the missing magic.

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.6/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html

Eike