Sheri schrieb:
> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>> Sheri schrieb:
>>
>>> Philip Hazel wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Sheri wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> STRING(TOUPPER "${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" buildtype)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Changed as above, I did not get the error any more. But I still
>>>>> don't get any status messages, and therefore, no configuration
>>>>> summary.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I can only run it as a command-line thing, not interactively.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried running the CMakeSetup program? Surely it must work
>>>>> in Linux.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't seem to have a CMakeSetup program. I do have a cmake-gui
>>>> command, I've discovered. I ran it; it seems to work, and it showed
>>>> a config summary in one part of the window.
>>>> I strongly suspect the problem is something to do with your
>>>> environment and I do not know what to do to fix it. Meanwhile, I
>>>> really do want to get 7.9 released now.
>>>>
>>>> A thought. When you keep changing CMakeLists.txt and retrying, do
>>>> you delete the CMakeCache.txt file each time? If you don't, I don't
>>>> think it actually does the re-configuring. It certainly doesn't for
>>>> me, though it does show the summary each time.
>>>>
>>> I always start with an empty build directory. CMakeSetup initially
>>> reads the unmodified CMakeLists.txt file from the source dir. The
>>> options I choose in CMakeSetup produce the cache file that is saved
>>> in the build dir. CMakeLists.txt is remains unmodified in the source
>>> dir.
>>>
>>>> I'm going to release 7.9 now because people are waiting for it. If
>>>> we figure out what the problem is, it can go into the next release,
>>>> of course.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Its ok with me, but the Non-Unix Use file endorses the use of
>>> CMakeSetup, and there does seem to be some issues.
>>>
>>>
>> Did you ty the new cmake-gui? cmake-gui is the successor of cmakesetup
>> build with qt instead crappy mfc.
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
>
> Thanks Christian. If I use cmake-gui, I see the configuration summary as
> part of the gui.
>
> If I change the comment style in CMakeCache.txt to # instead of \\ I see
> the Configuration summary as part of make, or Cmake -C CMakeCache.txt.
>
I tested with msys today and it works fine for me... strange
> I noticed that as part of CMake 2.6-patch 3, C and C++ build targets now
> link by default to a bunch of Windows libraries (e.g., gdi). I removed
> them from mine.
>
Do they hurt in any way? If so - plz write to cmake ml why it is bad :)
> I also noticed inside some cmake files that got generated after the
> first make (and which you're not supposed to edit), a place for External
> object files. Worked well when I specified my coff files there and
> rebuilt. Is there a better place to put those?
>
Try to add them to ADD_EXECUTABLE/ADD_LIBRARY directly - they should be
added to the link line then.
Christian
