[CMake] CMake Dependence on C: drive?

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks for the sanity check. I'm not really sure what is going wrong then.
Not a big deal per se but would really like to figure out what the issue
is. Maybe something funky with my PATH variable. This is on Windows 10 x64.

--
Mike Jackson

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:21 PM J. Caleb Wherry <calebwherry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Seems strange. Just yesterday I pulled down 3.13.4 and had no issues. I
> check cmake into our repo so it gets invoked on an assortment of different
> drives. I do the same thing you do and just change our bat config file to
> point to the new cmake binary. Never had any issues.
>
> I am running on Win7 but colleagues use Win10 and have not had any issues
> either.
>
> All that to say: shouldn’t be an issue.
>
> -Caleb
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:05 PM Michael Jackson <
> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>
>> Currently using CMake 3.13.3 on Windows 10. I have “installed” cmake
>> through the .zip download and placed it in E:\DREAM3D_SDK\ cmake-3.13.3-win64-x64.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If I now try to use that cmake to configure my source codes I get very
>> strange errors (It cannot parse a simple project command) and then
>> complains that it cannot find a CMake_MAKE_PROGRAM matching the “-G Ninja”.
>>
>>
>>
>> I then went back to using the same version of CMake, but placed on the
>> C:/DREAM3D_SDK/cmake-3.13.3-win64-x64 and now everything works as in the
>> past, no problems. I have a .bat file that sets up my environment with
>> needed paths and such. The ONLY difference between the 2 invocations was
>> that I changed the path to reflect the alternate location of CMake. I can
>> have 2 difference command prompts open based on this difference and one
>> works and one does not.
>>
>>
>> Was/Is there a known limitation where CMake _*must*_ be run from the C:
>> drive?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Jackson | Owner, President
>>
>>       BlueQuartz Software
>>
>> [e] mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>
>> [w] www.bluequartz.net
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>
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