[CMake] CMake + VS Toolkit 2003

[William A. Hoffman]

At 04:55 AM 1/13/2006, Benoit Regrain wrote:
>After having installed the 3 packages, set the environnement variables, I obtain the following messages :
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>The C compile "cl" is not able to compile a simple test program.
>It fails with the following output:
>  c:\creatis\CMake22\bin\cmake.exe -HZ:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp -BZ:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp --check-build-system CMakeFiles\Makefile.cmake 0
>  nmake -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 /nologo -L cmTryCompileExec
>  c:\creatis\CMake22\bin\cmake.exe -HZ:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp -BZ:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp --check-build-system CMakeFiles\Makefile.cmake 0
>  nmake -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 /nologo -L CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\all
>  nmake -f CMakeFiles\cmTrycompileExec.dir\/build.make /nologo -L CMakeFile\cmTryCompileExec.dir\depend
>
>Scanning dependencies of target cmTryComileExec
>  c:\creatis\CMake22\bin\cmake.exe -E cmake_depends "NMake Makefiles" Z:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp z:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp Z:\Perso\myLibNM\CMakeTmp\CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\DependInfo.cmake
>  nmake -f CMakeFiles\cmTryCompileExec.dir\build.cmake /nologo -L CmakeFiles\cmTryCommpileExec.dir\build
>Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompile.obj
>  c: @c:\docume~1\regrain\locals~1\temp\nm2af.tmp
>
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl': return code 'x80'
>Stop
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "c:\program files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\nmake.exe": return code '0x02'
>Stop
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "c:\program files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\nmake.exe": return code '0x02'
>Stop
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "c:\program files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Bin\nmake.exe": return code '0x02'
>Stop

The compiler is failing for some reason.  Is there anything in CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log ?
It looks like a linking problem.  
Another thing you can try is this:

cmake --debug-trycompile ../path/to/source
cd CMakeTemp
nmake


-Bill