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[Laurent Saboret <>]

Hi,

I you use Windows Vista (or, I guess, Windows 7) C:\Program Files\ is not writable by a regular user. This leads to the (not very clear) "The C compiler cl is not able to compile a simple test program".

If this is your case, you may:
* run cmake-gui and Visual Studio as "Administrator"
* or install CGAL is an another folder, where you have the right to write.

Best regards,
Laurent Saboret


Le 29/01/2012 13:34, Zeineb Abderrahim a écrit :

I am a new user of CGAL. I have not been able to compile CGAL. I followed the following steps :

1 - Open CMake - cmake-gui
2 - For both "Where is the source code" and "Where to build the binaries" Specify the CGAL installation folder (C: / Program Files/CGAL-3.7)
3 - Click Configure and then Choose "Visual Studio 2008
I found this in the compilation :  

Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 8 2005

Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 8 2005 -- broken

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (MESSAGE):

The C compiler "cl" is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:

Change Dir: C:/Program Files/CGAL-3.8/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

Run Build Command:C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\Common7\IDE\VCExpress.exe

CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE.sln /build Debug /project cmTryCompileExec

Microsoft (R) Visual C++ Express Version 8.0.50727.867.

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. Tous droits réservés.

1>------ Dbut de la gnrationÿ: Projetÿ: cmTryCompileExec,

Configurationÿ: Debug Win32 ------

1>Compilation en cours...

1>Compilateur d'optimisation Microsoft (R) 32ÿbits C/C++

versionÿ14.00.50727.762 pour 80x86

1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits rservs.

1>cl /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_DEBUG" /D "CMAKE_INTDIR=\"Debug\""

/D "_MBCS" /FD /RTCs /MDd /Fo"cmTryCompileExec.dir\Debug\\" /Fd"C:\Program

Files\CGAL-3.8\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\Debug/cmTryCompileExec.pdb" /W3 /c /Zi

/TC /Zm1000

1> ".\testCCompiler.c"

1>testCCompiler.c

1>Compilation du manifeste en ressources en cours...

1>dition des liens en cours...

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: impossible d'ouvrir le fichier 'user32.lib'

1>Le journal de gnration a t enregistr … l'emplacement

"file://c:\Program

Files\CGAL-3.8\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\cmTryCompileExec.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"

1>cmTryCompileExec - 1 erreur(s), 0 avertissement(s)

========== Gnrationÿ: 0 a russi, 1 a chou, 0 mis … jour, 0 a t

ignor ==========

CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.

Call Stack (most recent call first):

CMakeLists.txt:6 (project)

Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Please what is the problem ???

Thanks