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[Laurent Saboret <>]

Hi Dror,

I recommend you to use cmake-gui. Select the folder where CGAL code is 
located (C:/Program Files
  (x86)/CGAL-3.7) and your compiler (visual studio 9). Then hit the "configure" and 
"generate" buttons.
cmake-gui will create a file CGAL.sln.

Open CGAL.sln with visual studio 9 and compile it.

Regards,
Laurent Saboret


Le 08/01/2011 13:05, drorsh a écrit :
> Hello,
> I am a total newbie to CGAL, and this is actually the first time I'm tryint
> to use C++ on my private computer (I am using visual studio 9.0, installed
> on Windows 7).
>
> I am trying to follow the instructions in the installation guide, but have
> problems right on start.
> When I get to the part of "Configuring CGAL" and try to either use
> cmake-gui, or simply type "cmake ." in the command line (under the correct
> directory of course), I get a long list of errors, the first one being:
>
> -- Building for: NMake Makefiles
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeDet
> ermineSystem.cmake:157 (FILE):
>    file Internal CMake error when trying to open file: C:/Program Files
>    (x86)/CGAL-3.7/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log for writing.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>    CMakeLists.txt:6 (project)
>
> CMake Error: Could not open file for write in copy operation C:/Program
> Files (x
> 86)/CGAL-3.7/CMakeFiles/CMakeSystem.cmake.tmp
> CMake Error: : System Error: No such file or directory
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeDet
> ermineSystem.cmake:169 (CONFIGURE_FILE):
>    configure_file Problem configuring file
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>    CMakeLists.txt:6 (project)
>
>   And this goes on and on.
>
> Previous to trying to do this I downloaded and installed visual studio 9,
> downloaded cmake and boost. I also ran a simple program in visual studio 9
> just to see that everything works correctly.
>
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks!
> Dror