[CMake] CMake 2.8.2 with WindRiver diab compiler dcc.exe/dplus.exe on WinXP: CMake Error: Could not COPY_FILE. while detecting compiler ABI

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 17 September 2010, Brad King wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 03:35 AM, Molsen, Hannes wrote:
> > In CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake I found a flag called
> > "CMAKE_C_COMPILER_FORCED".
>
> This is meant to be set by cross compiling toolchain files that explicitly
> set the compiler ABI information.  It is not set by --debug-trycompile.
>
> > So I still want to get the ABI detection working correctly.
>
> Normally the try_compile command deletes the small test project it creates.
> It has a COPY_FILE option to first copy the built executable to some other
> place before deleting the test build tree.  The --debug-trycompile option
> tells it to not delete the test tree.
>
> For some reason the ABI detection test build is not succeeding.  The errors
> should be in CMakeError.log or CMakeOutput.log.  When --debug-trycompile
> is off the executable simply doesn't exist and cannot be copied.  When it
> is on then the executable from a *previous* try_compile happens to still
> exist as it was not overwritten or deleted by the failed build.  Then the
> COPY_FILE succeeds but is actually copying the wrong file.
>
> The root of the problem is that this toolchain fails to build the test
> executable.  Try building "CMakeCCompilerABI.c" from the CMake Modules
> directory by hand using this compiler.

Please post your toolchain file.
Do you also have a VXWorks.cmake or are you using "Generic" ?
How you you set CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX ?
Is it empty ? Are the executables produced by the compiler then also without 
suffix ?

Alex