CMake: specifying build toolchain

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Will picture Will · Feb 23, 2011 · Viewed 44.2k times · Source

Very new to CMake, and so far I'm finding it to be extremely helpful. I have a set of custom libraries that I would like to build for multiple platforms using cross-compilation. The toolchains are installed, and I can hand-create the Makefiles that I need to do so, but I would like to be able to make use of CMake.

Is there a way to tell cmake which toolchain to use, either at the command line or in the CMakeLists.txt file?

Answer

Jack Kelly picture Jack Kelly · Feb 24, 2011

Have a look here: basically, you define a "toolchain file" that sets things like the system name, paths to compilers and so on. You then call cmake like so:

cmake /path/to/src -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/to/toolchain/foo-bar-baz.cmake

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