[CMake] One last try

[Michael Jackson]

What are the problems that you are are having? What errors does cmake
produce? I use cmake with vs2008 every day on win 7 and win xp sp3
without any problems.

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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio


On Jun 21, 2010, at 3:02, Gerry Weaver <gerryw at compvia.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I've been using cmake for many years. I must admit that I have
> always been somewhat bothered by the complexity of it, but it hasn't
> really become an issue until now. When Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
> came out, I upgraded in order to get some new apis I needed. When I
> tried a cmake based build with this new compiler, it failed with
> problems finding sdk libs and various resource files. I fiddled with
> it for a couple of days, but could not get it to work. I also spent
> some time searching the Internet for a solution to my problem with
> no luck. All I could find was some very basic responses regarding
> vsvars32.bat etc. I then punted and used the Borland compiler
> instead. I am now facing the same situation again. I need to use
> Visual Studio 2008 on another project. Unfortunately, I cannot use
> Borland this time because the libs I need will not compile under the
> Borland compiler. I started with a clean machine, executed the
> vsvars32.bat and got the same exact problem I had before. I searched
> the Internet again thinking surely this problem had been resolved,
> but apparently it hasn't. I don't feel very comfortable in investing
> several days hacking up cmake to get this to work. This all leads me
> to the following questions.
>
> 1. Is cmake supposed to support Visual Studio 2008 out of the box?
> 2. If not, is there support for Visual Studio 2010?
> 3. If not, is there a patch or fix for either of the above?
>
> cmake 2.8.1
> msvc 2008
> winxp sp4
> Nmake Makefiles
>
>
> Thanks,
> -G
>
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