[CMake] ExternalProject BUILD_COMMAND and Visual Studio Express 2010

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 08:49:07PM -0700, Macumber, Daniel wrote:
> Our project is using ExternalProject_Add to build Ruby.  Our
> BUILD_COMMAND on Windows is "cd
> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Ruby-prefix/src/Ruby-build && nmake".  This
> works using the professional versions of Visual Studio.  However,
> using Visual Studio Express 2010 I get an error that nmake is not a
> known program.  Nmake is not in my system path but is found when
> running the Visual Studio command prompt.  How can I get the
> ExternalProject build command to use the correct environment?
> Should I put a call to vcvarsall.bat in the command line?  Is there
> a CMake variable that has the path to that?

I would expect that you need to put the folder where nmake.exe lives
in the %PATH%, the easiest way of achieving that is probably to use
vcvarsall.bat.

/M

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