On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Ray Donnelly <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Richard Shaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > After doing some research it seems that the default makefile generator is
> > decided at build time, so it's not determined dynamically at runtime like
> > one would expect.
>
> Maybe we could ask cmake developers whether they'd consider the
> default being a bit more clever, say, looking for ninja.exe,
> nmake.exe, make.exe then mingw32-make.exe (or some other order) in
> PATH and using that as the default? Then falling back to nmake.exe if
> nothing is found?
>
Worth asking but I doubt it... The logic is in C and although I'm not
really a programmer it doesn't look terribly sophisticated. It checks at
build time, not runtime as far as I can tell. It you could just set an
environment variable or something it would be tolerable, but no go.
Thanks,
Richard
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