[CMake] Running cmake to create binaries on a VFAT partition (LINUX)

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Aug 18 11:56:59 EDT 2007


Clemens Arth wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> for convenience I've located my Cmake projects on a vfat partition of 
> my hard disk, so I can access it from Linux and Windows without 
> problems. When I'm running on Linux, and I'm trying to call cmake on 
> the vfat partition, so that the binaries should also be created on 
> that partition, I encounter some problems. When I'm running as user, I 
> get errors like
>
> CMake Error: Error required internal CMake variable not set, cmake may 
> be not be built correctly.
> Missing variable is:
> CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P
You need to figure out why the try compile for void* sizeof is failing 
before you can figure out how to fix it.   CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log or 
CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log might have the answer.

I assume that cmake is working for simple projects on other disks on 
this machine?

-Bill


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