From: Brad King (brad.king_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-08 15:56:49
Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 16:23:58 schrieb David Abrahams:
>> Bill just sent me this clarification privately: they can handle
>> parallel *builds* (with some caveats I didn't really understand that
>> made it sound somewhat unreliable)
>
> AFAIK the caveat is that cmake doesn't build anythink itself, it just
> generates a bunch of files for the target buildsystem.
> Thus building parallel on unix flavors (including mac and msys on windows)is
> no problem, but i.e. nmake on windows can't(AFAIK).
This is correct, but you can setup an environment that uses the windows
port of gnu make with the "cl" command-line compiler from VS. Then
parallel builds work correctly.
-Brad