[CMake] Problem with making CMake under Windows

Arjen Markus arjen.markus at wldelft.nl
Fri Aug 11 03:31:57 EDT 2006


Oops, sorry, I forgot to change the subject of my post.
I send it again with the proper subject (the problem
I had originally was connected to Fortran, so it is
not completely off topic).

> Hello all,
>
> I have an odd problem with CMake on Windows (version 2.4.3):
>
> I want to build the PLplot project (http://plplot.sf.net) on Windows,
> using the MSVC 6.0 compiler. The PLplot project is currently
> developing a new build system using CMake and we have run
> into a difficulty that required a newer version of CMake -
> Bill Hoffman found the cause of the problem I encountered,
> so I had to get that version.
>
> The situation is this:
> - I downloaded the latest version of CMake from the anonymous
>  CVS repository today.
> - Because there were no instructions to build CMake on Windows
>  from source, I thought I'd use CMake 2.4.3 on Windows to this
>  end.
> - Configuration was no problem,  but when I pressed the OK
>  button to build the project files, the program simply stopped.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion as how to build it on Windows?
> (I can use Cygwin, but I am not sure that is supported by the
> bootstrap script)
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen




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