[CMake] Can't configure Perl on Windows

[David Cole]

I think the problem here was that you were giving "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/<Path
to Perl>" where you should have had "<Path to Perl>"

CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR is your source tree. Is perl really under your source tree?


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tron Thomas <tron.thomas at verizon.net>wrote:

>  Since Perl is not typically included with Windows, I am including the
> Windows version in the source tree.  The relevant CMake code goes something
> like this:
>
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
>
> project(MyProject)
>
> enable_testing()
>
> find_package(Perl REQUIRED PATHS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/<Path to Perl>)
>
> The <Path to Perl> refers to the root directory of the Perl installation
> (i.e. the directory that contains the bin, lib, etc. subdirectories).  I
> don't know if it needs to include the path to the actual executable.
>
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>
> On Thursday 27 November 2008, Tron Thomas wrote:
>
>
>  I am trying to configure a CMake project which requires Perl for
> building on Windows.  I have added the find_package command specifying
> that Perl is required and providing the path for where the Perl binaries
> are located.  Despite this, I get output like the following when trying
> to configure using CMake:
>
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:19 (find_package):
>
>  Could not find a configuration file for package Perl.
>
>
>  Please show the cmake code, it should work.
>
> Alex
>
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