Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread David Cole
through. Good discussion. 😊 Cheers, David From: Meteorhead Sent: β€ŽMarchβ€Ž β€Ž1β€Ž, β€Ž2013 β€Ž10β€Ž:β€Ž43β€Ž β€ŽAM To: cmake@cmake.org Subject: Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms Hi David! We either misunderstand each other, or my knowledge of CMake is too limited, but let me try to

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:52 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> If CMake developers say that the code is simply not structured like that, or >> it is too much work to rewrite these parts (and a few others that might >> depend on it), then I leave this subject be and not bother again with it. > > David le

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread John Drescher
> If CMake developers say that the code is simply not structured like that, or > it is too much work to rewrite these parts (and a few others that might > depend on it), then I leave this subject be and not bother again with it. David led the CMake development for years. John -- Powered by www.k

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread Meteorhead
Hi David! We either misunderstand each other, or my knowledge of CMake is too limited, but let me try to clarify this one last time, and if you still say it cannot work, I'll leave it at that: 1) I configure my project using Win32 with output dir A. In this directory every intermediate test and r

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread David Cole
To: cmake@cmake.org Subject: Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms I understand why CMake cannot resolve the issue in a single call to configure. However... how tricky/hard/impossible would it be to alter/rape the generate stage of CMake to handle this issue? Let's say I wanted to c

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-03-01 Thread Meteorhead
I understand why CMake cannot resolve the issue in a single call to configure. However... how tricky/hard/impossible would it be to alter/rape the generate stage of CMake to handle this issue? Let's say I wanted to create a Win32 and an x64 platform inside a solution/project. Then I would start

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-02-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:31 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> There are multiple posts in multiple forums asking this question, so >> naturally there is public need for this feature. How come CMake never aimed >> at creating a solution for this? I suspect there is some great design issue >> that preven

Re: [CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-02-28 Thread John Drescher
> There are multiple posts in multiple forums asking this question, so > naturally there is public need for this feature. How come CMake never aimed > at creating a solution for this? I suspect there is some great design issue > that prevents implementing it in CMake. There are several platform and

[CMake] Cmake and Visual Studio platforms

2013-02-28 Thread Meteorhead
Hi! I've been learning CMake for the past 2-3 weeks now, expanding my project feature by feature through making a tutorial for fellow scientists, and there is one big question that people (such as myself and others) ask coming from the Windows side of development: Why can't CMake create platforms