Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, troy d. straszheim > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > David Abrahams wrote: > > Beman Dawes wrote: > > > I thought cmake was supposed to be robust. This is very > discouragi

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread Beman Dawes
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: > >> Beman Dawes wrote: >> >>> >>> I thought cmake was supposed to be robust. This is very discouraging; it >>> implies cmake developers are only targeting folks who are cmake experts. >>> >>> I

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread troy d. straszheim
David Abrahams wrote: Beman Dawes wrote: I thought cmake was supposed to be robust. This is very discouraging; it implies cmake developers are only targeting folks who are cmake experts. Is it possible to disable this misfeature? I think Troy is saying that we get to control what gets cached

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread David Abrahams
Beman Dawes wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM, troy d. straszheim > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > David Abrahams wrote: > > troy d straszheim wrote: > > Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing > co

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread Beman Dawes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: > >> troy d straszheim wrote: >> >> Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing >>> configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed >>> configuration once? >>> >> >

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-27 Thread Beman Dawes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:02 PM, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > troy d straszheim wrote: > > > > > Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing > > configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed > > configuration once? > Hum... That explains failures I've

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-26 Thread troy d. straszheim
David Abrahams wrote: troy d straszheim wrote: Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed configuration once? Gosh, I don't know. Maybe. Probably. Heck, shouldn't that work, after all!? How will our users surviv

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-26 Thread David Abrahams
troy d straszheim wrote: > > Things look good. So... Dave is it possible you were doing > configuration of cmake in a build directory that had failed > configuration once? Gosh, I don't know. Maybe. Probably. Heck, shouldn't that work, after all!? How will our users survive if one failure

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-24 Thread troy d straszheim
troy d. straszheim wrote: On the CMAKE_RC_COMPILER: we saw this error as well... then it mysteriously disappeared, we didn't manage to toggle it and document how. I looked at this again, here are a couple of observations: Visual studio includes a .bat file that appears to load the VS enviro

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-23 Thread David Abrahams
troy d. straszheim wrote: > On the CMAKE_RC_COMPILER: we saw this error as well... then it > mysteriously disappeared, we didn't manage to toggle it and document > how. It looks like there > are some variations in the way visual studio gets installed that > are relevant: > >http://www.cmake.o

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-21 Thread troy d. straszheim
On the CMAKE_RC_COMPILER: we saw this error as well... then it mysteriously disappeared, we didn't manage to toggle it and document how. It looks like there are some variations in the way visual studio gets installed that are relevant: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=5719 [note that t

Re: [Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-20 Thread Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31
David Abrahams wrote: * on Win32, invoking cmake from inside my Visual Studio 2008 Express command prompt window, I get S:\xp32\build\boost-cmake>cmake . -- The C compiler identification is MSVC -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC CMake Error: your RC compiler: "CMAKE_RC_COMPILER-NOTFOUND"

[Boost-cmake] Some issues getting started on Win32

2008-06-19 Thread David Abrahams
Two problems * on Win32, invoking cmake from inside my Visual Studio 2008 Express command prompt window, I get S:\xp32\build\boost-cmake>cmake . -- The C compiler identification is MSVC -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC CMake Error: your RC compiler: "CMAKE_RC_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not