[CMake] Problem with Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7 64bit

[David Doria]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting ... I have no problems, the only thing I can think of is that I
> had VS 2010 SP1 installed before I installed VS 2012 Express, I did not use
> any of the RC versions.

Petr,

A colleague mentioned that with the same setup he was getting the same
error, and then installed SP1 for VS 2010 and things started working.
It would really be great if there were better checks/errors because it
is really a huge barrier for projects like VTK to get users to fight
through install problems. "Hey you should use VTK for that" works when
they have to follow a few instructions and it works, but when they
have to spend days working through cryptic errors most tend to give up
and then we lose a user.

Andrew,

I'm almost certain that it will never work using the VS generators
(with very different "can't find the compiler type of errors") unless
you run cmake-gui from a terminal unless you have manually added many
VS things to the system environment variables. At least that has been
my experience on many machines.

David