Hi! I've been learning CMake for the past 2-3 weeks now, expanding my project feature by feature through making a tutorial for fellow scientists, and there is one big question that people (such as myself and others) ask coming from the Windows side of development: Why can't CMake create platforms inside a generated project?
The question is not whether CMake can do it or not. I have found enough topics stating that it cannot. I understand that MSVC is the only compiler that has seperate executables for the 32-bit and the 64-bit compiler, which all other civilized compilers handle via a command line architecture flag. Clearly it is inside VS that handles whether it calls the 32-bit cl.exe, or the 64-bit one. And the interesting part comes here: There are multiple posts in multiple forums asking this question, so naturally there is public need for this feature. How come CMake never aimed at creating a solution for this? I suspect there is some great design issue that prevents implementing it in CMake. There are several platform and generator specific options already inside CMake, why can't this be another one? -- View this message in context: http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/Cmake-and-Visual-Studio-platforms-tp7583415.html Sent from the CMake mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
