On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Andreas Pakulat <ap...@gmx.de> wrote: >> I'm not familiar with the term build tree. > > That seems to be your problem here. The so-called "source tree" is the > project folder on your disk containing the actual source files and the > CMakeLists.txt files. The build-tree on the other hand is the folder in > which you run cmake to generate the build files (Makefiles or whatever).
Then it's a given that multiple build trees are needed. > The usual way with Makefiles is to: > > <setup tools for x64/release> > mkdir x64_release > cd x64_release > cmake .. > nmake > <setup tools for x64/debug> > mkdir x64_debug > cd x64_debug > cmake .. > nmake > <setup tools for x86/debug> > mkdir x86_debug > cd x86_debug > cmake .. > nmake > > So the various build-tree's for the configurations are separate subdirs > inside your source-tree (you can also put them completely outside of > your source-tree). So there's only 1 set of source/cmake files, but > multiple sets of makefiles/buildfiles. Makes sense, but that's certainly not something one wants to do by hand. In the VS case, it seems already possible to generate a project containing four different configurations. I'm asking for more configurations to be added. Olaf _______________________________________________ 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
