[vtkusers] cmake verison

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 07:21:45 EDT 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:18 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Ming Huang <minghuangvtk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> My problem is at step 11.  At this point I get a lot of errors from cmake
>> Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64 -- broken
>> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
>> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (MESSAGE):
>> The C compiler "cl" is not able to compile a simple test program.
>
> This means your compiler is not working for some reason.
>

It appears 64 bit support is not working or installed in your
compiler. Clear the cache in cmake-gui and select the Visual Studio 9
2008 generator without Win64. After you clear the cache and press
configure cmake will ask you for a new generator.

John



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