For context I'm completely new to cmake and C++ compiling. I'm trying to compile an application only available for linux in windows using g++. That application has a 3rd party library which I need to install/build on Windows as well.
That library uses cmake. When running cmake it defaults to "Building for: Visual Studio 12" and then fails due to an issue with time.h Anyway how can I set it to use cygwins g++ instead of visual studio? Or am I misunderstanding soemthing? I also tried this to no avail:
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:STRING=g++
Where can this setting be configured so that it will take the compiler I desire?
You need "Unix Makefiles" generator :
cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles"