On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:45 AM Graham Bloice
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:07, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Well,
>>
>> I seem to have gotten further, but then ran into this:
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>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:91 (message): The PLATFORM environment
>> variable ([undefined]) doesn't match the generator platform (win64)
>>
>> I notice that this page:
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>> https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/56074/cmake-build-fails
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>> 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
The preliminary output in the prompt is missing the very important line:
[vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
which shows that vcvarsall.bat was called and set the Platform env. var. This indicates something still isn't right about your environment. What do you have in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\"?
