Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] Toolchains and CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER in 3.5

> On 24 Feb 2016, at 16:08, Brad King wrote: > > try_compile: Add option to control type of target > https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f1bd9fe > > One should be able to simply add > >set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE STATIC_LIBRARY) > > to the

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] Toolchains and CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER in 3.5

> On 17 Feb 2016, at 14:33, Brad King wrote: > > One could look at adding hooks to the compiler id logic to add alternatives > provided by the toolchain file. Or, we could provide a way to set the > compiler > id but not also skip other checks. In the worst case such a

Re: [CMake] Toolchains and CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER in 3.5

Hi Brad, For context, I'm the maintainer of yotta (github: ARMmbed/yotta), a module system primarily for cross-compiled embedded software, which uses CMake for the build. > Basically CMake now needs to detect a lot more from the compiler than > we can expect a caller to provide in a