Hi: I'm trying to create a 64-bit Visual Studio 12 (aka 2013) project with
CMake 3.0.2. My CMakeLists.txt file is really simple:
cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 3.0 )
project( cmc CXX )
# What compiler did we find?
message( "C++: ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}" )
>From a windows shell I do:
> c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat
> cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" .
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.31101.0
-- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
-- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64 -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
C++: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/bin/x86_amd64/cl.exe
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/dbarnett/cmc/build
So, it appears to find the compiler OK since it emits the correct compiler
identification. But, the actual value of CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER is not usable. If
you try to execute C:/Program..../x86_amd64/cl.exe from within a CMake script
or even from the command line, it will fail and produce the well-known
"0xc000007b" dialog (missing DLL). Unless you've sourced vcvarsx86_amd64.bat,
the correct environment variables are not set for this version of the compiler.
On the other hand, if I do "cmake -G NMake Makefiles", I get what I expect:
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.31101.0
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
Studio 12.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
Studio 12.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
C++: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/dbarnett/cmc/other
Namely, it finds C:/Program..../amd64/cl.exe.
I've looked through the CMake Modules, but I could not really find the place
where CMake derives the value for CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER when you generate a VS
project. Could someone point me to the source code where this occurs? I would
like to see how it is coming up with this version of the compiler which isn't
even in the PATH.
Thanks,
Allen
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