[CMake] Fwd: Windows 7 - Permissions issues?

[J Decker]

This was my reply I accidentally just hit 'reply'

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Steve Westenbroek <smwesten at usgs.gov> wrote:
> I am continuing in my quest to use CMake to build a small (< 20 source
> files) Fortran and C project.
>
> I am running into very strange behavior that appears to be related to
> permissions; the permissions revolve around an attempt to write to the
> "Windows" directory. Why on earth would CMake produce a makefile that
> requires access to the "Windows" directory? Have I missed a variable
> definition somewhere?
>

your tempoary path might be like set TEMP= or set TMP= should be like
/users/you/appdata/something/temp

it's probably a 64 bit system, which actually means that when a 32 bit
process writes to /windows/ it goes to
/users/you/appdata/local(?)/VirtualStore/c(?)/windows

or maybe you're using 32 bit cmake and 64 bit compilers?


you can just turn off User Account Control; which controls permissions
on /windows/ pretty strictly - so unless you request the proper token
(which invokes a dialogbox) you don't get to write to /windows/

> The message I receive is:
>
> _D:\SMWData\Source_Code\tsproc_dev\share\libanne4.0\build\win32>make
> Scanning dependencies of target wdm
> [  1%] Building Fortran object wdm/CMakeFiles/wdm.dir/tsbufr.f.obj
> Cannot create temporary file in C:\Windows\: Permission denied
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> make[2]: *** [wdm/CMakeFiles/wdm.dir/tsbufr.f.obj] Error 3
> make[1]: *** [wdm/CMakeFiles/wdm.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Earlier in the day I was getting another message similar to this when CMake
> attempted to test the validity of my gcc; gcc would crash, and there was a
> hint in the error message that a temporary file could not be created in
> C:\Windows.
>
> Help?! Thanks.
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