[CMake] CMake Error: The source directory "./build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp" does not exist.

[Bill Hoffman]

Roger Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a build with cmake-2.6.1-win32-x86 CMakeSetup for 
> "Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64" as the build target.
> 
> Keep getting a
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> 
> CMake Error: The source directory "./build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp" does not 
> exist.
> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
> 
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> 
> but when I look, the directory is there; it does exist.  Got the nightly 
> build to see what could be the problem or if the issue has already been 
> caught and fixed.  Yet get the same issue trying to setup the build for 
> cmake [Was also going to try to compile cmake for 64 bit machines].
> 
> The project root is ./ and the build folder is ./build. 
> 
> 

Could this be some sort of path length issue?  What is "."?

Also, can you build a very simple project:

c:/foo/CMakeLists.txt
add_library(foo foo.c)

Run CMakeSetup and set source to c:/foo and build to c:/foo/build.

-Bill