Each Visual Studio sets a environment variable that helps you locate the
installed location. So for Visual Studio 2008 it is VS90COMNTOOLS, and for
Visual Studio 2010 it is
VS100COMNTOOLS. So you can have a single bat file that is configured by
cmake to determine both the correct env variable to use, and the proper
args to pass to vcvarsall.bat.



On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:44 AM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Why not just write your own batch ('buildit.bat') file that does:
> >
> >    call vcvarsall.bat
> >    nmake
> >
> > (or whatever the command to build in the VS command prompt is...)
> >
> > And then your command to build is:
> >
> >    C:/full/path/to/buildit.bat
> >
> > It's presumably in a Windows-specific chunk of your CMakeLists anyway, so
> > that should work fairly simply.
>
> I think the part of problem would be figuring out what vcvarsall.bat
> to run especially if you have more than 1 version of Visual Studio.
>
> John
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