[CMake] CMakeSetup requires elevation on Vista

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Oct 25 10:05:42 EDT 2007


Gonzalo Garramuño wrote:
> Brandon Van Every wrote:
>> On 10/23/07, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> The fix is in CVS CMake, but you have to build CMake with VS 8.  The
>>> next release of CMake will have this fix in it.
>>
>> Is VS8 a temporary or permanent requirement?  If permanent, are there
>> guards to keep people from building CMake with earlier versions of VS?
>>  I don't think we want a proliferation of Windows .exe's.
>>
> 
> Don't do that.  People like myself are still compiling from source under 
> VS7.1 and have no plans to upgrade to VS8.  Are you working for 
> Microsoft these days, Brandon, that you want to force a U$1500 upgrade 
> on people ? :)
> 
> I don't see anyone else other than www.cmake.org distributing cmake 
> binaries, so there's not likely going to ever be a proliferation of 
> windows .exe's.
> 
All I really care about is the official binary that I make form Kitware. 
  I am not sure vs8 is actually required, I think all you need is the mt 
tool from vs8.  There maybe a way to get that tool and use it from vs7. 
  Basically, the fix is to embed some xml into the .exe.

-Bill



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