[CMake] CMakeSetup requires elevation on Vista
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Oct 23 17:20:30 EDT 2007
Nico Galoppo wrote:
> I'm experiencing the same problem as in bug #5072
> (http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=5072), regarding requiring CMake
> requiring elevation on Vista ('run as administrator').
>
> The problem lies in the fact that the build scripts/directories are
> owned by the administrator, which means that Visual Studio won't own
> the files, or directories (e.g. problematic if the runtime creates
> temporary files in the build directories).
>
> A solution has been reported in the bug reports, but it doesn't seem
> to be incorporated into the latest CMake version. Does anyone have
> more details?
>
The fix is in CVS CMake, but you have to build CMake with VS 8. The
next release of CMake will have this fix in it.
-Bill
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