[CMake] QtCreator generator?

[Michael Jackson]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Friday 11 November 2011, David Doria wrote:
>>> Ok. one more: how exactly did you run cmake ?
>>> From the command line or cmake-gui ?
>> 
>> From the CMake-GUI.
>> 
>>> Which generator did you choose ?
>>> It should be the "CodeBlocks - NMake Makefiles" one.
>> 
>> I had chosen "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles". I just tried again with
>> "CodeBlocks - NMake Makefiles", and I get a message box that says:
>> "mspdb100.dll is missing".
>> 
>>> This then needs to be run from a terminal which has the VisualStudio
>>> environment variables set.
>> 
>> Since I am running the GUI, I'd have to set the "global Windows
>> environment variables", right? Which variables do I need to set?
> 
> I think you have to run the GUI from a terminal where the variables are set up 
> already. There was usually such an entry in the start menu. I don't know 
> whether this is also the case with VSExpress.
> 
> Alex
> --

That is the best way I have found to run CMake on Windows when multiple Visual Studios are installed. There is a Command Prompt short cut called "Visual Studio Command Prompt" that will have all the compiler paths setup for you. What I do is launch that command prompt then issue "cmake-gui.exe" from there and then CMake will know what compilers I want. Note that there are actually 2 different Visual Studio command prompts: one for 32 bit compiles (Win32) and one for the 64 bit compiles (Win64)

Mike Jackson