'Re: [CMake] Visual Studio Cross Compile'

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Subject:    Re: [CMake] Visual Studio Cross Compile
From:       Michael_Jäntsch <michael.jaentsch () in ! tum ! de>
Date:       2015-11-02 17:36:42
Message-ID: 56379F2A.8070100 () in ! tum ! de
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Hi,

thanks for your replies. So it seems that Visual Studio is generally not
a great idea for cross-compiling...
So eclipse and some make system it's gonna be then. Any suggestions what
works best? Coming from the Linux world, I obviously use Unix make, but
there is also Ninja, nmake, ...?

Michael

On 02.11.2015 15:51, Parag Chandra wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Meant to reply sooner. As Nils pointed out, Visual Studio isn't quite as flexible \
> with cross-compilation as some other build systems. Having said that, it is indeed \
> possible to cross-compile with Visual Studio, but there has to be a cross toolchain \
> compatible with the IDE. Some examples of this include: 
> Google's Native Client - I have successfully targeted this environment with Visual \
> Studio 2010 and Cmake; 
> Windows Phone 8.1/10 - Have targeted this as well. While you may be thinking \
> "that's just another flavor of Windows", it is nevertheless cross-compiling for \
> ARM; 
> Several options for Android development:
> Nvidia Tegra Studio;
> Visual Studio 2015 - Microsoft now offers first-party support within VS 2015;
> VS-Android;
> 
> Commercial/paid add-ons that seem to support arbitrary GCC toolchains:
> Visual GDB - This one may be your best bet for what you are trying to accomplish. \
> Supports Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi, etc. out of the box, and they claim to have \
> an extensibility model to add your own platforms; WinGDB - similarly seems to \
> support the GNU toolchain directly. 
> Anyway, hopefully you get the idea. It is possible, but out of the box, you're only \
> going to be able to target Windows Phone and Android. 
> 
> Parag Chandra
> Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team
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> On 10/29/15, 10:21 AM, "CMake on behalf of Michael Jaentsch" \
> <cmake-bounces@cmake.org on behalf of michael.jaentsch@in.tum.de> wrote: 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a question concerning Cross Compiling with CMake on Windows. I 
> > would like to use Visual Studio but this is not a must. What I do is, I 
> > setup a project for Cross Compiling on Linux and it works fine. Now I 
> > want to transfer to Windows, so I set up a toolchain file which sets the 
> > following variables:
> > CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME
> > CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR
> > CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
> > CMAKE_C_COMPILER
> > CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
> > 
> > and some more stuff. Then I run my cmake gui (I tried 3.2 and 3.4rc2) 
> > on Windows and tell it to generate a project for Visual Studio 10 and to 
> > use the toolchain file. However, the output shows that it is trying to 
> > use the Visual Studio compiler and then subsequently the build fails 
> > because of some unkown compiler flags.
> > 
> > So my question is: Is it even possible to do what I'm trying to do? Can 
> > I cross compile with Visual Studio or do I have to use a different 
> > generator? All I found in the documentation is that it is possible to 
> > cross compile with a toolchain file...
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
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> > Fakultät für Informatik
> > Robotics and Embedded Systems
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