[CMake] Running CMake on windows VM

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Jan 7 21:29:21 EST 2008


Jesse Corrington wrote:
> I am having a problem running CMake on a windows VM. The setup is 
> windows virtual server R2 on windows server 2003. Attempting to run 
> cmake.exe from the command line gives the error message "The system 
> cannot execute the specified program." Running from the windows GUI 
> gives an error about the application not being configured correctly. I 
> built the cmake exe on a Win XP SP2 machine with MSVC 2005. I have added 
> some new source files to cmake, but have not changed the build 
> configurations at all. It has worked on all the other machines, just not 
> the VM. Any ideas?
> 

You built CMake?  Does the binary from kitware work? My guess is that 
you did not bring over the correct run time libraries from MS.  Best bet 
is to do a make install and copy that tree, or install NSIS and use 
cpack, or use the binary from Kitware.

-Bill


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