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dmeiser79

09 Feb, 2015 04:15 PM

Hi,

Would it be possible to upgrade to a more recent version of cmake? For my project I need at least 2.8.8 but a newer version than that would be even better. The latest windows installer is here:

http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.1/cmake-3.1.2-win32-x86.exe

Thanks,
Dominic

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 09 Feb, 2015 05:30 PM

   

   Will deploy it this week.

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2. 2 Posted by dmeiser79 on 09 Feb, 2015 05:38 PM

   

   Great, thanks.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 12 Feb, 2015 05:06 AM

   

   It's been updated to the latest 3.1.2

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4. 4 Posted by victor.zverovic... on 12 Feb, 2015 08:13 PM

   

   Looks like this update broke the build here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/vitaut/cppformat/build/1.0.699/job/t773yj8fir98gmyf

   The output is completely messed up (which is another issue), but it appears that CMake warning is treated as a failure. It's not clear what "Command executed with exception:" refers to though.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 12 Feb, 2015 08:17 PM

   

   Seems like cmake is writing to StdErr which is treated by PS as exception. Try replacing before_build section with:

   before_build:
     - ps: |
         if ($env:Build -eq "mingw") {
           # Remove path to Git bin directory from PATH because it breaks MinGW config.
           $env:PATH = $env:PATH -replace "C:\\Program Files \(x86\)\\Git\\bin",""
           $generator = "-GMinGW Makefiles"
         }
     - echo "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$env:Config"
     - cmake -DFMT_EXTRA_TESTS=ON "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$env:Config" "$generator" .
   

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6. 6 Posted by dmeiser79 on 12 Feb, 2015 09:34 PM

   

   Several options to fix this:
   - use `cmake_policy` as mentioned in the error message to get old cmake behavior.
   - Fix the CMakeLists.txt to the new behavior (get rid of quotes in if statement).
   - Ignore warning with -Wno-dev
   Let me know if you have problems with any of this. I could provide PR to fix.

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7. 7 Posted by victor.zverovic... on 13 Feb, 2015 03:04 AM

   

   Feodor, unfortunately changing the `before_build` section didn't help, but you were right the problem was in PowerShell's treatment of stderr. I've moved the code to a separate Python script, so everything is working now and much cleaner. Shouldn't have used PowerShell in the first place because it's such a mess, but I didn't know that Python comes preinstalled on build machines.

   Dominic, I fixed the warning already, but thanks for the suggestion.

   Thanks, guys.

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8. Support Staff 8 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 13 Feb, 2015 03:05 AM

   

   Great, thanks for the update!

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9. 9 Posted by Christopher Dem... on 05 Oct, 2015 10:53 PM

   

   There is a bug in CMake related to VS2015 and the redistributable dll's (https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15552). The CMake bug is fixed in CMake version 3.2.3. Could you upgrade CMake again to at least 3.2.3?

   Thank you!

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10. Support Staff 10 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Oct, 2015 11:17 PM

    

    Sure. I've added a new issue: https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/444

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11. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:00 AM.