[CMake] Unicode path wrecks havoc with VS2013 generator

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Nov 8 10:18:39 EST 2013


On 11/8/2013 4:48 AM, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have the following issue, which I do not know whether it is an issue
> of CMake or Visual Studio. When I try to generate a Visual Studio
> project under a path that contains unicode characters, VS fails to
> compile the simple test file and thus CMake terminates project
> generation. Visual Studio does have some issues with projects under
> unicode paths, but generally things work. (For eg. the C++AMP call tree
> generator breaks, therefore no C++AMP project can be built in such
> paths) I develop all my applications in my Skydrive folder which is
> under the Users folder, and since my name holds unicode characters, I
> have no control over mw home folder under Win 8 if I have a Live-ID user
> in the OS. This is what happens:
Clearly you need to change your name.  :)

Can you create a simple project from the IDE in that directory and get 
it to work?

If you run CMake with --debug-trycompile, can you load the solution in 
the CMakeTmp directory from the IDE?

-Bill



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