CMake configuring fails. “cl.exe is not able to compile a simple test program”

Question

I am trying to build a solution for MSVC++2010 using CMake. Since I installed Visual Studio 2012 that does not work anymore. CMake comes with the following error message: \"

Answer 1

I encountered a similar problem,

In my case, running Visual Studio 2017 as administrator and applying @Adi Shavit's answer worked.