CMake does not find Visual C++ compiler

Question

After installing Visual Studio 2015 and running CMake on a previous project, CMake errors stating that it could not find the C compiler.

The C compiler ident         


        

Answer 1

In my case the issue was that the parent project, which is including googletest via

add_subdirectory(gtest_dir)

was defined as

PROJECT( projname CXX )

Somehow, CMake does not recognize

PROJECT(sub_project_name CXX C)

since the C compiler is not set in the parent.

I solved the issue by using

PROJECT( projname CXX C)

in my main CMakeLists.txt file.