strange error when building paraview superbuild on Windows 10 with cmake

ParaView Support
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Hi,

I follow the link here
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild
to build Paraview 5.5.2 on my PC.
Following the link it is said that

The superbuild can be built with a Makefiles or Ninja CMake generator. The IDE generators (Xcode and Visual Studio) are not supported.

However, if I try with Makefiles/Ninja generator in cmake, it ends with a CMake Error

CMake Error at superbuild/projects/win32/boost.cmake:5 (message):
At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required
Call Stack (most recent call first):
superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:673 (include)
superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:145 (_superbuild_discover_projects)

I also find the following method by using Ninja + VS 12/14 compiler( with vcvarsall.bat, see the following link) in the archives of the old mailing lists, but this method doesn’t work for me either, I still get the same error (At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required…):
https://markmail.org/message/cjnniaac4lt2ldy4

could anyone give some help?

2

It looks like CMake does not find the visual studio compiler. Did you run cmake via the visual studio interface(aka visual studio x64 win64 command prompt)? If using CMake-gui, did you specify the compiler?

3

Make sure you run cmake-gui and ninja from the visual studio native command.

4

Hi Haocheng,

thank you very much for your reply!
The Cmake-gui seems need more variables to be set, so I switched to the command line.
I tried to run the cmake via the visual studio interface, but I still got the “At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required” error.

However, today I found out that the visual studio interface only adjusts the path variable and sets some other variables. Then based on the adjusted path, cmake finds the compiler for MinGW/Strawberry for me at first. After deleting unneeded entries in my path variable, the cmake can finally find the VS compiler and I get rid of this error.

But now I get a new error:

CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildUtils.cmake:45 (message):
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE must be one of: Release, RelWithDebInfo.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:25 (include)

Based on this link, I tried the following command:

cmake --config Release -GNinja …

But I still get this “CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE” error. Do you know how to solve this?

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Hi Mathieu,

thank you very much for your reply!
The Cmake-gui seems need more variables to be set, so I switched to the command line.
Actually, with Cmake-gui I get this error:

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/CMakeDetermineRCCompiler.cmake:20 (message):
Could not find compiler set in environment variable RC:

rc.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/Platform/Windows-MSVC.cmake:380 (enable_language)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/Platform/Windows-MSVC-C.cmake:5 (__windows_compiler_msvc)
C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/CMakeCInformation.cmake:48 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)

CMake Error: CMAKE_RC_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage

I tried to run the cmake via the visual studio interface, but I still got the “At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required” error.

Today I found out that the visual studio interface only adjusts the path variable and sets some other variables. Then based on the adjusted path, cmake finds the compiler for MinGW/Strawberry for me at first. After deleting unneeded entries in my path variable, the cmake can finally find the VS compiler and I get rid of this error.

But now I get a new error:

CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildUtils.cmake:45 (message):
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE must be one of: Release, RelWithDebInfo.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:25 (include)

Based on this link, I tried the following command:

cmake --config Release -GNinja …

But I still get this “CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE” error. Do you know how to solve this?

6

Can you try cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release?

Or you can manally change the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable in the CMakeCache.txt file.

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Thank you very much! Now I have built it successfully.