On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:11 AM Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:52, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:45 AM Graham Bloice
>> <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:07, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >> Well,
>> >>
>> >> I seem to have gotten further, but then ran into this:
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>> >> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:91 (message): The PLATFORM environment
>> >> variable ([undefined]) doesn't match the generator platform (win64)
>> >>
>> >> I notice that this page:
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>> >> 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.
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>> This is what I see when I start the Developer Command Prompt:
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>> **********************************************************************
>> ** Visual Studio 2019 Developer Command Prompt v16.3.9
>> ** Copyright (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation
>> **********************************************************************
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>> C:\Users\Richard.Sharpe.A00187\source\repos>set PLATFORM
>> Environment variable PLATFORM not defined
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> The preliminary output in the prompt is missing the very important line:
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> [vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
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> 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\"?
It's all there. If I run the x86_64 Cross Tools Command Prompt for VS
2019 I get this:
[vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x86_x64'
It seems that Microsoft have just muddied the waters a bit.
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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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