[CMake] Building CMake on Windows

2009-12-08 Thread steve naroff
The 'Readme.txt' for the Windows source distribution says: "You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to build CMake." Unlike UNIX/Mac, the Windows source can't be bootstrapped... I assume the Readme.txt is accurate? Any plans to change this? Thanks, snaroff

Re: [CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-07 Thread steve naroff
On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Bill Hoffman writes: [snip] Even with the IDE based files if you are using install rules, then the CMake executable must be available on the machine doing the install. CMake is also used as the program to do the install commands. So, CMa

Re: [CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-07 Thread steve naroff
On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Eric Noulard wrote: 2009/12/7 steve naroff : As Eric pointed out, you must add CMake to your compiler build chain. It's one more tool (and with no third-party dependencies), like the C preprocessor, the C compiler and the linker. We did that at work and it

Re: [CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-07 Thread steve naroff
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM, steve naroff wrote: Thanks for your comments Oscar. Our current thinking is to post process the cmake generated files and remove all the absolute paths (since the project files are simply text

Re: [CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-07 Thread steve naroff
lear if this a 'good' idea? Or will I bump into other gotcha's? Any advice is appreciated...you have a lot more experience with this than I do! snaroff On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Hello Steve and Eric. Eric Noulard writes: 2009/12/6 steve naroff :

Re: [CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-06 Thread steve naroff
Thanks for the quick response...comments below: On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Eric Noulard wrote: 2009/12/6 steve naroff : Hi, I work on llvm/clang (a client of cmake). For development, cmake is wonderful (no big issues). For deployment, cmake's inability to copy it's generated proje

[CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

2009-12-06 Thread steve naroff
Hi, I work on llvm/clang (a client of cmake). For development, cmake is wonderful (no big issues). For deployment, cmake's inability to copy it's generated project files to another machine is causing us some grief. The scenario is quite simple: I want to copy the llvm/clang source tree over