[CMake] Creating the resource-only dll with NMake

[Yuri Timenkov]

Won't it work if you set target's linker language to C or C++? I
suppose it's a LINKER_LANGUAGE property.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Kozlovskiy, Alexey
<Alexey_Kozlovskiy at mentor.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I tried to create a simple CMake project to assemble a resource only dll. My CMakeList.txt file:
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> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
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> set (PROJECT_NAME viewerResDLL)
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> project ( ${PROJECT_NAME} )
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> set ( SRCS_MAIN
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>                viewerres_en.rc
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>                )
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> set ( HDRS_MAIN
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>                resource.h
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>                )
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> add_library ( ${PROJECT_NAME} SHARED ${SRCS_MAIN} ${HDRS_MAIN} )
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> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES (${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "/MANIFEST:NO /NODEFAULTLIB /NOENTRY" )
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>
>
> I execute CMake with the following flags:
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> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G"NMake Makefiles"
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>
>
> and receive the following error:
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> -- Configuring done
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> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may be not be built correctly.
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> Missing variable is:
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> CMAKE_RC_CREATE_SHARED_LIBRARY
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> -- Generating done
>
>
>
> “Nmake all” command finished without any errors, but in the same time without any results - viewerResDLL.dll not created.
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> If I use the “Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64” generator all looks working correct and I’m able to build viewerResDLL.dll
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>
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> Any help will be very appreciated…
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> Thanks!
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>
>
> Regards,
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> Alexey
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>
>
>
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