conan: Can't use cmake generator "NMake Makefiles" with conan
If I set environment variable CONAN_CMAKE_GENERATOR to"NMake Makefiles", conan correctly passes -G "NMake Makefiles" to cmake during configure but build fails with
NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option 'j'
Stop.
ERROR: PROJECT: Error in build() method, line 30
cmake.build()
ConanException: Error 2 while executing cmake --build C:\Work\conan-test\build -- -j4
the problem is here: https://github.com/conan-io/conan/blob/develop/conans/client/build/cmake.py
if "Makefiles" in self.generator:
if "--" not in args:
args.append("--")
args.append("-j%i" % cpu_count())
You always add -j flag for Makefiles generators but NMake does not understand that.
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Comments: 25 (20 by maintainers)
Yes, it works for me. Thanks a lot!
@memsharded,
That’s quite obvious. For
Visual Studiogenerator cmake knows the target toolchain and architecture from its name (likeVisual Studio 15 2017 Win64). That’s not the case forNMake Makefiles. So cmake should rely onclthat it finds in the path. I believe it also applies to Ninja.