[CMake] Unable to create project files with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7

[David Cole]

What do you mean when you say "I set CMAKE_ROOT to a directory" ??

That should not be necessary, no matter how you're running cmake...

Is that an ENV var or a CMake variable you're setting somewhere?

D



On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:18 PM,  <David.Karr at engilitycorp.com> wrote:
> A small correction: the problem with "The C compiler identification is unknown" seems to have been due to the fact that I forgot to open that particular command window as administrator. In a new command window, run as administrator, both -G "Visual Studio 10" and -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" produce the "required elevation" error, same as before. Go figure.
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> David
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karr, David A. @ EngilityCorp
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 12:47 PM
>> To: 'David Cole'
>> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
>> Subject: RE: [CMake] Unable to create project files with Visual Studio
>> 2010 on Windows 7
>>
>> I tried this with a CMakeLists file that contains only a PROJECT and
>> ADD_EXECUTABLE (with a single C++ source file). The only things present
>> in the directory before running CMake were the C++ file,
>> CMakeLists.txt, and a batch file that I used to run CMake. I still get
>> the "requires elevation" error even when I run cmake.exe from a command
>> line as administrator. It also doesn't seem to matter whether I select
>> Visual Studio 10 or Visual Studio 10 Win64 as my generator.
>>
>> I thought maybe the problem was that I didn't "install" CMake, rather
>> (as I've been doing for years, due to the way this project is version-
>> controlled) I set CMAKE_ROOT to a directory that happens to contain the
>> CMake files and then ran a copy of cmake.exe. I just tried the exercise
>> again after doing a regular installation of CMake 3.1.0 (using default
>> choices only) and came up with the same result. (Actually not quite:
>> now -G "Visual Studio 10" says "The C compiler identification is
>> unknown", and only -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" produces the "elevation"
>> error, whereas with my previous uninstalled version both generators
>> resulted in "elevation".)
>>
>> David
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