[CMake] Configuring for VC9/2008 Express

[Bill Hoffman]

Thomas Sharpless wrote:
> Despite what it says in the Wiki, Visual C++ 2008 Express does not " 
> work nicely with cmake" for me. 
> 
> I have cmake 2.4 patch 7, which I believe is the current release for 
> Windows.  As it does not offer a generator option for VC9, I selected 
> VC8/2005.
> 
> Then initial configuration fails because Visual Studio 2008 Express 
> dislikes the format of the .sln files and offers to convert them, a 
> response that cmake does not understand; so it won't generate project 
> files (and if it did, I presume those would need conversion too).
> 
> Is there a known workaround?
> 

Please try RC 13 for 2.4.8, it should have support for VS 2008, it can 
be found here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/cmake-2.4.8-RC-13-win32-x86.exe

Let me know if it works, because it does, I am going to make the 
official 2.4.8 from RC 13.  Getting that working was my last task for 2.4.8.


-Bill