On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:52, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:45 AM Graham Bloice > <graham.blo...@trihedral.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:07, Richard Sharpe < > realrichardsha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Well, > >> > >> I seem to have gotten further, but then ran into this: > >> > >> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:91 (message): The PLATFORM environment > >> variable ([undefined]) doesn't match the generator platform (win64) > >> > >> I notice that this page: > >> > >> https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/56074/cmake-build-fails > >> > >> discusses the problem and points to the document I was using, but that > >> document does not address the PLATFORM environment variable. > >> > >> While it did not take long to figure the issue out, perhaps it could > >> be pre-empted by adding an additional environment variable to the list > >> in the documentation. > >> > > > > The Platform env. variable is set by vcvarsall.bat which is what's > actually run to make a Command Prompt a "Visual Studio Command Prompt. > Setting it manually is NOT the correct thing to do. It appears that > there's still something wrong in your environment, as I noted on the Ask > question you linked where the OP had a similar issue for reasons that were > never resolved as they failed to respond. > > This is what I see when I start the Developer Command Prompt: > > ********************************************************************** > ** Visual Studio 2019 Developer Command Prompt v16.3.9 > ** Copyright (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation > ********************************************************************** > > C:\Users\Richard.Sharpe.A00187\source\repos>set PLATFORM > Environment variable PLATFORM not defined > > The preliminary output in the prompt is missing the very important line: [vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64' which shows that vcvarsall.bat was called and set the Platform env. var. This indicates something still isn't right about your environment. What do you have in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\"? -- Graham Bloice
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