CMake error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (project): No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found

Question

I\'m trying make a Visual Studio solution with CMake to compile the latest version of aseprite and CMake keeps giving me the:

No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be fo         


        

Answer 1

For me, this problem went away on Windows when I moved my project to a shallower parent directory, i.e. to:

C:\Users\spenc\Desktop\MyProjectDirectory

instead of

C:\Users\spenc\Desktop\...\MyProjectDirectory.

I think the source of the problem was that MSBuild has a file path length restriction to 260 characters. This causes the basic compiler test CMake performs to build a project called CompilerIdCXX.vcxproj to fail with the error:

C1083: Cannot open source file: 'CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp'

because the length of the file's path e.g.

C:\Users\spenc\Desktop\...\MyProjectDirectory\build\CMakeFiles\...\CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp

exceeds the MAX_PATH restriction.

CMake then concludes there is no CXX compiler.