[CMake] Windows Visual Studio 13 with Ninja & CMake

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/22/2016 1:58 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> My combination is Windows 10 (Anniversary Update), Visual Studio 12 2013
> Update 5, Ninja and CMake 3.5/3.6.
>
> I launch CMake-GUI.exe, select my Source and binary directories and then
> "Configure", select "Ninja" as the generator and then I instantly get
> the error that CMake can not find the C/C++ compilers. I do not recall
> ever having this issue. I just recently updated Windows 10 to the latest
> so I am not sure if that caused something to go wrong? I use the
> "Zipped" version of CMake if that makes a difference. I did have to
> install the "Windows 8.1 SDK" in order for QtCreator to work correctly.
>
> I can successfully do the following:
> * Configure and generate from the command line for Ninja
> * Use the CMake-Gui to generate a VS 12 2013 solution file without any
> issues.
> * QtCreator 4.1 can use ninja to properly generate its own projects with
> a correctly detected compiler.
>
> Thoughts?
You have to run cmake-gui from an environment that has been setup to run 
the compiler.  VS command prompt.  If you run cmake-gui from a menu or 
clicking on an icon it won't have that and things won't work unless you 
use the VS generator which does not require a special environment.

-Bill