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0001702

CMake

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2005-03-22 22:01

2005-04-05 10:22

Reporter

Shishir Ramam

Assigned To

Bill Hoffman

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

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closed

Resolution

fixed

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Summary

0001702: Improve error message - ""CMake Error: Internal CMake Error, Could not find GUID for targe

Description

An attempt to use Cmake 2.0.5 to generate project
files for Visual Studio 8.0 fails with
"CMake Error: Internal CMake Error, Could not find
GUID for target: my_file.c"

<billlist@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> However, I have seen this before, are you using
> any ADD_DEPENDENCIES commands? The error
> happens when you have a top level target that
> depends on a target that does not exist.
> ADD_DEPENDENCIES can only be used with
> target names and not source file names like
> my_file.c.

It was indeed the case that I had a bad ADD_DEPENDENCIES. Removing it solved the
problem. Improving the error message would
help.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change

Notes
(0002274) Bill Hoffman (manager) 2005-04-05 10:22	Fixed in cvs.

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