How can I verify whether what I want to built claims support for Windows ?
On 8/1/2018 11:15 AM, Michael Ellery wrote:
So it sounds like you are on windows. First, be sure that the project that you
are building claims support for windows. Windows is still the “odd man out”
platform in many cases, so you don’t want to chase your tail with a project
that never claimed windows support in the first place. That said, assuming
windows is a supported build env, then it further sounds like you are using
cmake-gui.
The most sensible generator is one of the visual studio ones - 64 or 32 bit
depending on your needs. Once you have generated a project with cmake, you then
open that generated project with VS.
Alternatively, however, I’d also suggest you consider just using the built-in
CMake support in Visual Studio. If you download the latest version of VS (even
the community version), then you can just open a CMakeLIsts.txt file directly
and VS will run the generation step for you. It works pretty well in my limited
experience. It can a little tricky to figure out how to set some non-default
options in this workflow, but that’s more advanced usage anyhow.
-Mike
On Jul 31, 2018, at 6:46 PM, CrestChristopher<crestchristop...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, I'm using CMake for Windows as I was informed that I couldn't use `make` as
the CMakeLists.txt file was only for CMake.
Within CMake for Windows I select the location of the source code which is the
cloned repository which include the CMakeLists.txt file that I want to compile,
followed by I select a folder where to build the binaries; I'm then prompt for
a generator for the project. Up to this point am I doing this correctly ?
Thank You
On 7/31/2018 12:56 PM, Michael Ellery wrote:
typical usage would be something like (assuming you are at repo root) :
mkdir mybuild && cd mybuild
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake —build .
you can also opt to configure cmake (the equivalent of the first cmake command
above) using a GUI like ccmake or cmake-gui if you prefer. The cmake build type
can be changed depending on your needs. If the project depends on other
libraries/tools, you might need to install those before building.
HTH,
Mike
On Jul 30, 2018, at 9:17 PM, CrestChristopher<crestchristop...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, I'm a beginner to CMake and for weeks I've been trying to compile a CMake
file which I found on a github repository. All I can say is I have a
CMakeLists.txt file but I don't know how to compile and I hope someone can help
?
Christopher
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