[CMake] VS8 and cmake 2.2.3 [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: visual studio 2005 free version]]

[Steve Pieper]

Hi -

Is anyone using the VC++ Express 2005?  We're running into the problems 
listed below.  Unless there's a known workaround I'll put this in the 
bugtracker.

Thanks,
Steve


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [Fwd: visual studio 2005 free version]
Date: 24 Jan 2006 10:54:47 -0500
From: Miller, James V (GE, Research) <millerjv at crd.ge.com>
To: Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu>,  Andy Cedilnik 
<andy.cedilnik at kitware.com>

Andy,

Just a little more information.  CMake 2.1 (sometime during that 
development lifetime)
was able to perform its try/compiles and configure the project with the 
VS8 compiler.
My ITK build with that could not locate windows.h but otherwise things 
built.

I played around with make sure cl.exe was in the path etc but still had 
the errors
mentioned by Steve.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Pieper [mailto:pieper at bwh.harvard.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:48 AM
To: Andy Cedilnik; Miller, James V (GE, Research)
Subject: [Fwd: visual studio 2005 free version]


Hi Andy -

I'm trying to use CMake with the new free VS8 compiler.  I get the
following error with CMake 2.2.3 and with the current cvs of cmake (as
of this morning).  Jim says he sees the same problem.

"The C compiler 'cl' is not able to compile a simple test program.  It
failes with the following output:

CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project."


I didn't see anything about this in the cmake bug tracker and I don't
see any VS8 builds on the cmake dashboard.

Should this work?  Should this be filed as a bug/feature request on the
cmake bug tracker?

Thanks,
Steve



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: visual studio 2005 free version
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:31:40 -0500
From: Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu>
To: 'namic-eng at na-mic.org' <namic-eng at na-mic.org>

Hi Folks -

Here's some follow up on the apres-tcon discussion of visual studio
2005.  It seems that you can download an Express Edition of Visual C++
2005 for free (though Nov 2006) and it will continue to work even after
the free download period is over.  After that it may be $49 (they aren't
clear).

I haven't yet gotten it working with Slicer (an issue with the current
release of cmake; Jim was able to reproduce -- we're checking with Andy
and will put in a cmake bug report once we figure it out).

Download link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/default.aspx

Comparison of features (appears to have everything we need for
vtk/itk/slicer):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx

Explanation of the pricing:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/default.aspx#pricing

-Steve