Re: Building on Windows

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:45 AM Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice () trihedral com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:07, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com> wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > I seem to have gotten further, but then ran into this:
> >
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:91 (message): The PLATFORM environment
> > variable ([undefined]) doesn't match the generator platform (win64)
> >
> > I notice that this page:
> >
> > 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.

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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