[CMake] CMakeSetup requires elevation on Vista

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Oct 23 17:20:30 EDT 2007


Nico Galoppo wrote:
> I'm experiencing the same problem as in bug #5072
> (http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=5072), regarding requiring CMake
> requiring elevation on Vista ('run as administrator').
> 
> The problem lies in the fact that the build scripts/directories are
> owned by the administrator, which means that Visual Studio won't own
> the files, or directories (e.g. problematic if the runtime creates
> temporary files in the build directories).
> 
> A solution has been reported in the bug reports, but it doesn't seem
> to be incorporated into the latest CMake version. Does anyone have
> more details?
> 
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.

-Bill



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