[CMake] Issue with Visual Studio 8 2005 Win64

[Bill Hoffman]

Malhotra, Anupam wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> I created a solution for Visual Studio 8 2005 Win64 using CMake. The sln 
> has various projects all of which are to be built using VS 2005 for x64. 
> When the sln is opened, the x64 configuration is selected by default for 
> all projects.I have set some project dependencies (say project x is 
> dependent on projects a,b,c,d,e, project e is dependent of project f and 
> so on) among the various projects in the sln. Now, a weird issue is 
> occurring when I am building all the projects using devenv command line. 
> All the projects build successfully except for one project (say project 
> x). Project x has dependencies on say 10 different projects. Each time 
> project x is built using the command line, some of the dependent 
> projects start failing with the following error:
> 
>  
> 
> 6>CMake Error: The C compiler "F:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual 
> Studio 8/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.
> 
> 6>It fails with the following output:
> 
> 6>
> 
> 6>Microsoft (R) Visual Studio Version 8.0.50727.42.
> 
> 6>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved.
> 
> 8>CMake Error: The C compiler "F:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual 
> Studio 8/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.
> 
> 6>1>------ Build started: Project: cmTryCompileExec, Configuration: 
> Debug Win32 ------
> 
> 8>It fails with the following output:
> 
> 6>1>Compiling...
> 
It is possible that cmake is re-running during the build and somehow 
switching generators.  Can you send me the complete output of the build 
off the list?

-Bill

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