Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-21 10:14:40

On the CMAKE_RC_COMPILER: we saw this error as well... then it 
mysteriously disappeared, we didn't manage to toggle it and document 
how.  It looks like there
are some variations in the way visual studio gets installed that
are relevant:

    http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=5719

[note that the 'proposed solution' bit doesn't start until after the
rather long how-to-reproduce]

On the 64 bit problems... will look later.

-t

Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31 wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> * on Win32, invoking cmake from inside my Visual Studio 2008 Express
>> command prompt window, I get
>> S:\xp32\build\boost-cmake>cmake .
>> -- The C compiler identification is MSVC
>> -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC
>> CMake Error: your RC compiler: "CMAKE_RC_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not
>> found.   Please set CMAKE_RC_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
>> -- Using FREE VC TOOLS, NO DEBUG available
>> -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual
>> Studio 9.0/VC
>> /bin/cl.exe
>> CMake Error: your RC compiler: "CMAKE_RC_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not
>> found.   Please set CMAKE_RC_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
>> CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile configure of cmake
>> failed -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft
>> Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- broken
>> CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake
>> 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:32 (MESSAGE):
>>  The C compiler "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 9.0/VC/bin/cl.exe"
>>  is not able to compile a simple test program.
>>
>>  It fails with the following output:
>>
>>  CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>  CMakeLists.txt:28 (project)
>>
>> -- Configuring done
> 
> FWIW, I have Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition installed here (Win XP, 32 
> bits), and it doesn't have an RC.EXE either. Even though 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx suggests that 
> RC.EXE is included with all editions of Visual C++ 2008.
> 
> Luckily I still had a few RC.EXE's at my disc:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\RC.Exe
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\rc.exe
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\Bin\RC.Exe
> 
> So maybe you need to install Microsoft SDK...?
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Niels Dekker
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~nd/dekkerware
> Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center
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