[CMake] cmake vista tutorial?

[Craig Miller]

Yeah, I made a few posts last week with the details of the specific problem
I'm having.  A couple of folks tried to help, but in the end they were
stumped too.

Here's an excerpt with the meat of the problem from one of those posts:

> On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Craig Miller wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Thank you for the reply.  Filling in the missing blanks in the 
>> tutorial, ultimately, the steps I attempted were exactly as you 
>> describe.
>>
>> As there doesn't seem to be a tutorial that addresses the Vista 
>> specific issues, I'll just follow the tutorial directions (same as
>> yours) and post when I get to each specific error.  I'll document 
>> what I'm doing with screenshots and when it is all working I'll 
>> provide the document to the maintainers of the website to use as they 
>> see fit.
>>
>> Here is where I'm at.
>>
>> 1.        Installed cmake 2.6.1 via the Windows Installer
>> 2.       Created a CMakeLists.txt file in my src directory
>>
>> # Start CMakeLists.txt
>> project(Union)
>> add_executable(Union union.cpp)
>> #End CMakeLists.txt
>> 3.       Fired up CMakeSetup and set the src and build directories.
>> 4.       Set the build type (nmake)
>> 5.       Received an error (picture attached).
>>
>> CMake Error:  your RC compiler : "CMAKE_RC_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not 
>> found.  Please set CMAKE_RC_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or 
>> name.  (Press Cancel to suppress any further messages.)
>>
>> Note: Pressing cancel causes CMakeSetup to hang until Vista 
>> eventually prompts to shut it down.
>>
>> Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:53 AM
To: Craig Miller
Cc: a.neundorf-work at gmx.net; cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] cmake vista tutorial?

Craig Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Alex.  As a new user, I wasn't aware of the wiki 
> and didn't think to look under the developer menu (thought it was for 
> CMake devs, not devs using CMake).  I was following the directions 
> under http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html.
> 
> I'll take a closer look, but a quick perusal and search for "vista" 
> didn't seem to offer up a tutorial.  Are you suggesting that the 
> tutorial is already there if I had only taken the time to look?
> 
> As I mentioned in my other posts, I was willing to sort through and 
> fully document any Vista related issues.  At this point, I'm going to 
> hold off on running CMake under Vista 64.  While it might be possible 
> to get it running, I'm not willing to use an immature product (under 
> Vista 64 anyway) that has limited community support.  I'll play around 
> with it on a less critical project in a few months.
> 

Using CMake on Vista should be no different than using it on Windows XP, or
Windows NT for that matter.  We have developers here at Kitware that use
Vista 64 on a daily basis.  Do you have a specific issue?

-Bill