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.tay...@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.tay...@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.jack...@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.jack...@bluequartz.net www.bluequartz.net >>> >>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Clark Taylor <clark.n.tay...@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 >>> > -- >>> > >>> > Powered by www.kitware.com >>> > >>> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >>> > >>> > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For >>> more information on each offering, please visit: >>> > >>> > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html >>> > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html >>> > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html >>> > >>> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>> > >>> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >>> >>> >> > > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more > information on each offering, please visit: > > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >
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