If you ever built a program using CMake, you must have encountered errors like: Could NOT find ZLIB (missing: ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR) Could NOT find Libidn (missing: LIBIDN_LIBRARY LIBIDN_INCLUDE_DIR) Could NOT […]
I followed this article to learn how to use vcpkg and got this error: C:\vcpkg\helloworld>cmake –preset=default Preset CMake variables: CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=””C:\vcpkg”/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake” CMake Error at C:/CMake/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/CMakeDetermineSystem.cmake:130 (message): Could not find toolchain file: […]
I once built Qt from source but forget now which version of compilers I used to build it. In the config.summary, I found the following string: Building for: win32-msvc (x86_64, […]
After installing Visual Studio, you may find programs with the same name appear in different folders such as the program cl.exe. There are several cl.exe’s: C:\Microsoft Visual Studio\xxxx\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\xx.xx.xx.xx\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe C:\Microsoft Visual […]
CMake is a very complicate program worth writing a book about it. But like you, I’ve no time to know every detail of CMake. So I prepare this minimal tutorial […]
When your project links to libprotobuf, you may get the following errors: libprotobuf.lib(descriptor.cc.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for ‘RuntimeLibrary’: value ‘MT_StaticRelease’ doesn’t match value ‘MD_DynamicRelease’ in mocs_compilation.cpp.obj libprotobuf.lib(common.cc.obj) : […]
When building a project that links to libcurl, you may get these errors: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_curl_global_init referenced in function xxx error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_curl_global_cleanup referenced […]
When building a project on Windows using CMake, I got this error: Could NOT find Protobuf (missing: Protobuf_LIBRARIES Protobuf_INCLUDE_DIR) Call Stack (most recent call first): C:/CMake/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) C:/CMake/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindProtobuf.cmake:650 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS) […]
When I built a project with CMake, I got this error: Could NOT find CURL (missing: CURL_LIBRARY CURL_INCLUDE_DIR) Call Stack (most recent call first): C:/CMake/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) C:/CMake/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindCURL.cmake:182 (find_package_handle_standard_args) cmake/libcurl.cmake:5 (find_package) […]
We’ve talked about how to build openssl with msys2 and Mingw. Today, I will talk about how to build openssl with Visual Studio 2017 and NASM. step1: download/install required software […]