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

[Roger Martin]

Setting the full path fixes it.  I'm wondering, on relative paths, if the
cmake home/bin directory is the root.

Yes, ./ is the current directory of the project from where I run a cmd
script.

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With the paths fixed as you pointed out, I then get an error dialog with ...
The C compiler "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio
  9.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.
...
But by hand-build-environment, I can compile and link a 64 bit program with
cl.exe and the Windows SDK

I use Netbeans and Visual C++ 2008 Express IDE's.

But for some complex projects such as http://www.openscenegraph.org CMake is
the right tool.


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> 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
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> CMake Error: The source directory "./build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp" does not
>> exist.
>> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> 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
>
>
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