[CMake] cmake not found

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed May 4 16:19:17 EDT 2011


On 5/4/2011 1:32 PM, David Henderson wrote:
> I was abbreviating for conciseness on the path. I've tried running this
> in an MSYS cmd window and get the same error.
>

Seriously, I think you have a cygwin make.exe on your system.  I don't 
think msys is capable of producing this as output: /cygdrive/e.

I think that is your problem.


> I've spent the morning trying to dump out as many environment variables
> that may be related as possible.
>
> This is really frustrating as the build just works on Linux...
>
> /Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless/
>
>
> -----Original message-----
>
>     *From: *David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>*
>     To: *David Henderson <dnadavewa at yahoo.com>*
>     Cc: *cmake at cmake.org*
>     Sent: *Tue, May 3, 2011 10:25:23 GMT+00:00*
>     Subject: *Re: [CMake] cmake not found
>
>     I guess the "/cygdrive/e/workspace/GSDesignGUI" must be from the
>     MSYS make program then...
>
>     Are you really doing a "cmake ../src/explorergui" from the root of
>     the E: drive? Or were you just abbreviating in your email?
>
>     Has anybody else seen this error with the MSYS Makefiles generator?
>
>     The E:> suggests you're running it in a Windows command prompt. Are
>     you running in an MSYS prompt? If not, try it from an MSYS prompt,
>     and let us know how that goes.
>
>
>     On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David Henderson <dnadavewa at yahoo.com
>     <mailto:dnadavewa at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello David:
>
>         I do not have cygwin installed.  Anywhere.  I also did a search
>         for cmake.exe and the only one available is the one in the cmake
>         installation.  I have version 2.8.4 installed.
>
>         Thanks!!
>
>         Dave H
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         *From:* David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com
>         <mailto:david.cole at kitware.com>>
>         *To:* David Henderson <dnadavewa at yahoo.com
>         <mailto:dnadavewa at yahoo.com>>
>         *Cc:* cmake at cmake.org <mailto:cmake at cmake.org>
>         *Sent:* Mon, May 2, 2011 7:l28:00 AM
>         *Subject:* Re: [CMake] cmake not found
>
>         Looks to me like you're using the cygwin cmake.
>
>         Use the native Windows cmake instead for generating with the
>         "MSYS Makefiles" generator.
>
>         They differ in how they treat paths to file names.
>
>
>         On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:01 PM, David Henderson
>         <dnadavewa at yahoo.com <mailto:dnadavewa at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>             I'm having trouble compiling a project using cmake.  Here is
>             the output from the
>             command line execution of the offending line of my Makefile
>             on Windows 7 64bit:
>
>
>             E:> cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ../src/explorergui
>             -DR_LIBRARIES=${LIBR}
>             CMakeCache.txt -DR_INCLUDES=${R_INCLUDE_DIR}
>             -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../inst/libs/
>             -- The C compiler identification is GNU
>             -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
>             -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Rtools/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
>             -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Rtools/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
>             -- broken
>             CMake Error at
>             C:/CMake-2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52
>             (MESSAGE):
>               The C compiler "C:/Rtools/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe" is not able
>             to compile a
>               simple test program.
>
>               It fails with the following output:
>
>                Change Dir:
>             E:/workspace/GSDesignGUI/package/gsDesignExplorer/explorergui-build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
>
>
>
>
>               Run Build Command:C:/Rtools/bin/make.exe
>             "cmTryCompileExec/fast"
>
>               /usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build.make
>               CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build
>
>               make[1]: Entering directory
>               `/cygdrive/e/workspace/GSDesignGUI/package/gsDesignExplorer/explorergui-build/
>             CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
>
>
>               /C/CMake-2.8/bin/cmake.exe -E cmake_progress_report
>               /E/workspace/GSDesignGUI/package/gsDesignExplorer/explorergui-build/CMakeFiles
>             /CMakeTmp/CMakeFiles
>               1
>
>               /C/CMake-2.8/bin/cmake.exe: not found
>
>               make[1]: Leaving directory
>               `/cygdrive/e/workspace/GSDesignGUI/package/gsDesignExplorer/explorergui-build/
>             CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
>
>
>               make[1]: ***
>             [CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj] Error
>               127
>
>               make: *** [cmTryCompileExec/fast] Error 2
>
>
>
>
>
>               CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
>             Call Stack (most recent call first):
>               CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)
>
>
>             -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>
>             E:>
>
>
>
>             cmake is in C:\CMake-2.8\bin, so why am I getting this
>             error?  I initially
>             thought the problem was with the space used in Program
>             Files, but moving cmake
>             2.8 to the root didn't seem to fix the error.  Any idea on
>             what is going on?
>
>             Thanks!!
>
>             Dave H
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