[CMake] Using cmake to configure a 32 bit project on Windows 64 Bit OS

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Mike Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> I tried the following:
>
>  Open the "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt"
>  Navigate to my project.
>  CMake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" ../
>
>  and I get the error that says the C compiler can not compile a simple
> test program. Looking at the error log it would seem that cl.exe isn't
> on the path anywhere. I double checked by running vcvars.bat again but
> nothing.
>
> Pretty sure I just did the standard install for VS 2008 Standard
> Edition. This is on Windows 7 x64. Maybe I can't build 32 bit apps
> with the standard edition?
>
> Dunno but I bet there is someone in CMake land who has hit this
> problem and I am sure it is something simple that I am missing.
>

Did you run CMake from the 32 bit command prompt or the x64 one?

John