When CMake (current version: 3.2.2) generates project files for Visual
Studio, it appears to define an undocumented variable that seems quite
useful to me: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION. It appears to be the full
compiler version. For example, for my VS2010 installation,
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION is "16.0.40219.1", and for my VS2013
installation, CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION is "18.0.31101.0".
It seems useful to me to pass this CMake variable to the resource
compiler, which does not have direct access to the macro's predefined
by the C++ compiler (like _MSC_FULL_VER and _MSC_BUILD), for example
by adding a "-D" flag:
add_definitions(-DMY_COMPILER_VERSION="${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION}")
Do you agree that it would be a good idea to add
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION to the list of useful CMake variables, at
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables ?
Kind regards, Niels
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Niels Dekker
Scientific programmer at LKEB
Leiden University Medical Center
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