On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Thompson, KT <k...@lanl.gov> wrote:

> Aaron,
>
> Another way to do this is by using external project, but it is very
> 'hacky'.  A good place to look for examples is CMake's own
> AddCMakeFortranSubdirectory features.  This is designed to allow Fortran to
> be compiled with MinGW when the main project uses a VisualStudio generator.
> The same general logic would work to allow you to process a subdirectory
> with a different toolchain.
>

Thanks, I will look into this as one option.
Aaron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CMake [mailto:cmake-boun...@cmake.org] On Behalf Of P F via CMake
> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 9:22 AM
> To: Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com>
> Cc: cmake <cmake@cmake.org>
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Change compiler for certain files in the project
>
>
> > On Oct 28, 2017, at 9:50 AM, Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a cmake project on linux, and I would like to change the compiler
> > for certain files from g++ to  another, llvm-based compiler called hcc.
> > (hcc is AMDs HIP compiler for GPGPU)
> >
> >
> > Is there a way of doing this in my cmake file ?
>
> There isn’t a simple way to do that. The FindCUDA and FindHIP cmake
> modules do that, but its not at all easy to follow, and brings its own set
> of issues.
>
> Of course, why do you need to use g++ to compile host code? Being
> clang-based hcc should be able to compile any g++ code. So you can just use
> hcc as the compiler for everything and then link with the `hccrt` cmake
> target(provided by `find_package(hcc)`) which will enable GPU compiling
> when you want to compile code for the device.
>
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