[CMake] ExternalProject BUILD_COMMAND and Visual Studio Express 2010

[Macumber, Daniel]

Thanks Magnus, is there a reliable way to get the path to vcvarsall.bat that will work for various versions of Visual Studio (express or not)?

Dan







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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