[CMake] Problem using VS 2012 Express and CMake

[Doug]

I installed visual studio express on a brand new windows 7 machine
yesterday (brand new installed; liteally all it has on it is visual studio
express 12 and cmake), and I encountered similar troubles.

1) As described in this thread, msbuild wasn't found by default:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12434696/visual-studio-express-2012-and-cmake/19206854#19206854

2) After correcting CMakeVS12FindMake.cmake to detect msbuild, it generated
the project, but the project wouldn't run. It said that the 'specified
build configuration was not found' and that I should attempt to upgrade the
project.

However, visual studio express didn't have an upgrade option on the
solution (which is should) and in the end I was forced to upgrade the
project using VS pro at work this morning.

Anyway, long story short: I'm fairly certain that its currently not
possible to build cmake projects with visual studio express 2012 on windows
7.

~
Doug.

(PS. After reading this thread I did perform an repair, but as expected,
the difficulties appear to be that 1) the path in the config file is wrong
and 2) VS express doesn't have a functioning devenv.exe to perform upgrades
with; it didn't fix anything)


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Clark Taylor <clark.n.taylor at gmail.com>wrote:

> There must have been a problem with my Visual Studio install.  I
> "repaired" Visual Studio 2012 and everything is working now.  (As the
> machine was restarting, I realized I still had the same project open in VS
> 2008, which may have been the whole problem.)  Wish the error messages were
> more instructive so this didn't look like such a stupid mistake :)
>
> Clark
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Clark Taylor <clark.n.taylor at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Do you have any machines that have more than one Visual Studio Express
>> installed on it.  That is the only differentiator I can think of.  That or
>> I am just stupid and not using CMake right.  I have selected Visual Studio
>> 11 (_not_ Win64 or ARM).  Other than that, I am doing everything just like
>> I do for VS 2008, but the projects won't load.  I have noticed that Visual
>> Studio 9 says "Visual Studio 9 2008", unlike 2012 which says just "Visual
>> Studio 11", but I assume that is just a naming oddity.
>>
>> Clark
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Michael Jackson <
>> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I use VS2012 express with CMake and it works just fine. So not sure what
>>> the problem could be.
>>> ___________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
>>> BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
>>> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Clark Taylor <clark.n.taylor at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Sorry if this is a duplicate question, but...
>>> >
>>> > I have been using CMake for a project and it works great with Visual
>>> Studio 2008 Express and on Linux. I recently installed VS 2012 Express on
>>> my machine (VS 2008 is still installed), and installed CMake 2.8.11.2
>>> (downloaded yesterday) to have VS2012 support.  While CMake finds the
>>> compiler for Visual Studio 11 and generates the project and solution files,
>>> when I try to open these files in VS 2012 Express, the solution loads but
>>> the projects all fail to load.  When I tell them to reload from within VS,
>>> I get a "This operation could not be completed.  No such interface
>>> supported" error.
>>> >
>>> > Is there something simple that needs to be done to enable working with
>>> VS 2012 Express? Let me know if I can clarify anything.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Clark
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