[Insight-users] A CMake Error during configuring ITK (CheckBigBitfield.c ?) : Please dont use parenthesis in directory names

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Xiang,


Do you have a directory name with parenthesis "(86)" symbols on it ?



     C:/Program Files (x86)/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/CMake
                      ^^^^^


That is probably what is disturbing CMake...


You may want to rename that directory to use a name without parenthesis.
CMake use ")" as terminators of expressions, so the parenthesis in your
directory break its syntax.


Using special symbols in directory and file names is a very unwise
practice...



   Regards,


       Luis


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Xiang, Hong wrote:
> Hello ITK users,
> 
> In installing and configuring ITK to a new machine [Windows XP, Pro. x64(WOW)],
> we saw
> a CMake error as shown below. It seems to do with a CMake file:
> CheckBigBitfield.c Any 
> clue for a fix would be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Hong
> 
> P.S. 
> 
> We did not see this error while configuring VTK, and FLTK etc. The error
> appeared during 
> configuring from CMake as "Checking to see if this platform supports large
> bit-fields(>32)", 
> and reads 
> 
> "CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> C:/Program Files
> (x86)/InsightToolkit-281-Binary/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CMakeLists.txt:1:
> Parse error. Function missing ending ")". Instead found left paren with text
> "(".
>  
> Below I pasted the above CMakeLists.txt file, which seems to be ok.
> 
> SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH C:/Program Files (x86)/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/CMake)
> PROJECT(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE C)
> SET(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE 1)
> SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "  /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3 /Zm1000  ${COMPILE_DEFINITIONS}")
> INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES})
> LINK_DIRECTORIES(${LINK_DIRECTORIES})
> ADD_EXECUTABLE(cmTryCompileExec "C:/Program Files
> (x86)/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/CMake/CheckBigBitfield.c")
> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(cmTryCompileExec ${LINK_LIBRARIES})  
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