> Having developers remember to do -DCMAKE_XXX half a dozen times for every build wasn’t realistic so we scripted it because CMake didn’t support the idea that

> Having developers remember to do -DCMAKE_XXX half a dozen times for every build wasn’t realistic so we scripted it because CMake didn’t support the idea that a toolchain file wasn’t passed on the command line (that I’m aware of). You're supposed to use `-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE` to specify how to use a toolchain like this. > I also disliked that it generated recursive Makefiles. It doesn't make them in the "recursive make considered harmful" way. It is a static 3-depth graph (UI -> target graph -> target rules). Or you could use the Ninja generator. FD: CMake developer