[CMake] Unable to create project files with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7

[David.Karr at engilitycorp.com]

A small correction: the problem with "The C compiler identification is unknown" seems to have been due to the fact that I forgot to open that particular command window as administrator. In a new command window, run as administrator, both -G "Visual Studio 10" and -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" produce the "required elevation" error, same as before. Go figure.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karr, David A. @ EngilityCorp
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 12:47 PM
> To: 'David Cole'
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: RE: [CMake] Unable to create project files with Visual Studio
> 2010 on Windows 7
> 
> I tried this with a CMakeLists file that contains only a PROJECT and
> ADD_EXECUTABLE (with a single C++ source file). The only things present
> in the directory before running CMake were the C++ file,
> CMakeLists.txt, and a batch file that I used to run CMake. I still get
> the "requires elevation" error even when I run cmake.exe from a command
> line as administrator. It also doesn't seem to matter whether I select
> Visual Studio 10 or Visual Studio 10 Win64 as my generator.
> 
> I thought maybe the problem was that I didn't "install" CMake, rather
> (as I've been doing for years, due to the way this project is version-
> controlled) I set CMAKE_ROOT to a directory that happens to contain the
> CMake files and then ran a copy of cmake.exe. I just tried the exercise
> again after doing a regular installation of CMake 3.1.0 (using default
> choices only) and came up with the same result. (Actually not quite:
> now -G "Visual Studio 10" says "The C compiler identification is
> unknown", and only -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" produces the "elevation"
> error, whereas with my previous uninstalled version both generators
> resulted in "elevation".)
> 
> David