On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jochen Wilhelmy <j.wilhe...@arcor.de> wrote: > >> I would suspect that most users use the default values. I pretty much >> go with the defaults with the addition of adding the /MP parameter >> inside my main CMakeLists.txt file. > > If you are the author of some software then this is fine. But I have the > case where I have > to use some existing visual studio projects using /MT and a cmake project, > both of which > I am not the maintainer and therefore changes cannot be made. So it was > quite complicated > to get it working. > > But what is against my proposal of splitting the -G option? for visual > studio there are > two more platforms except Win32 and Win64, some smartphone and mobile stuff. > So the number of generators will explode anyway. with four versions and four > platforms > this are a whopping number of 16 generators for visual studio alone. >
You may be able to get this approved if you file a bug report and possibly provide a patch for this. It actually should not be that hard to implement however I assume developers have much higher priorities than this. John _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake