[CMake] Changes to NMake Makefiles generator in 2.6?

[David Cole]

Did you start with an absolutely clean build tree, or might there be some
build output leftover from CMake 2.4...?


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ted Berg <tberg at vivox.com> wrote:

> Sources & build files for a DLL which has been a CMake 2.4 target are being
> migrated to a CMake 2.6 project.  This target in the 2.4 project has been
> well behaved for months, but fails to link under CMake 2.6 generated NMake
> Makefiles.
>
> The basic error is as follows:
> Linking CXX shared library QtVivoxSDK.dll
> The parameter is incorrect
> QtVivoxSDK.dll.intermediate.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to
> load and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> Looking at the VERBOSE=1 output it appears that the link.exe call which
> generates the intermediate manifest (LINK Pass 1:) is failing with the error
> "The parameter is incorrectMT:", and the subsequent mt call to update the
> embedded manifest fails because it can't find the intermediate manifest.
>
> Given that
> 1. The build files which generate the above failure in CMake 2.6 NMake
> Makefiles *succeed* when built by CMake 2.4 NMake Makefiles
> 2. The build files which generate the above failure in CMake 2.6 NMake
> Makefiles also succeed when built in the Visual Studio IDE.
> 3. The link command line is *huge*.  I don't have any real numbers as far
> as character length is concerned, but it's very likely to exceed the windows
> command line length limit.
> 4. This is my initial exposure to CMake 2.6
>
> What course of action is most likely to help me resolve this issue?  I can
> post logs, or build files.  I'm not allergic to docs, just not sure where to
> start looking for 2.6 troubleshooting info.
>
> Is there a variable I can set which would re-enable passing arguments to
>  the win32 build tools via temp files?  I'd rather avoid it but this seems
> like a reasonable first step.
>
> Ted
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