I experienced this error as well when setting up my LyX build environment (Windows 10 + MSVC 2010 + Qt 4.8.6). The only insight I can provide is that initially, my cmake config wasn't an exact match to what was described in INSTALL.Win32. That file was written for Qt < 5, so as part of getting everything to match INSTALL.Win32 and compile, I switched to Qt 4.8.6 rather than Qt 5.4 or 5.5. I don't exactly recall if that switch was the silver bullet for this error, but I know I haven't been able to compile LyX yet using Qt 5.x on Windows. Perhaps try compiling LyX with Qt 4.8.6 (keeping all other config the same), and see if that removes this error? In which case there is possibly some issue with compiling with Qt 5.x on Windows...
Best regards, David ________________________________________ From: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org <lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org> on behalf of PhilipPirrip <p...@net.hr> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 8:16 PM To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions Hello! I'm trying to compile LyX for Windows: WinXP VirtualBox, Visual Studio 2010, Qt 5.5, all by the instructions in INSTALL.Win32 No matter what I do in CMake config, the compilation ends with the messages I give below, and I have no idea what's happening and how to fix it. 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/es/DocumentoTextoPostizo.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-UserGuide-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-EmbeddedObjects-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-Math-LyX_22.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/./SpecialParagraphShape.tex 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/LFUNs.lyx 24> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:32 (file): 24> file INSTALL cannot find "C:/LyX/lyx-build-windows/bin/Debug/LyX.exe". 24> Call Stack (most recent call first): 24> cmake_install.cmake:3975 (include) 24> 24> 24> 24>C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: The command "setlocal "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -DBUILD_TYPE=Debug -P cmake_install.cmake if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd :cmEnd endlocal & call :cmErrorLevel %errorlevel% & goto :cmDone :cmErrorLevel exit /b %1 :cmDone if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :VCEnd :VCEnd" exited with code 1. 24> 24>Build FAILED. 24> 24>Time Elapsed 00:00:47.16 ========== Build: 21 succeeded, 3 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped