I cloned a library that i needed to use for a coding task and visual code auto-compiled its cmake automatically giving me this,i've already looked all over stack overflow and seen similar problems with cl.exe but the solutions dont seem to be anything that fits my problem, the error is following:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/CMakeTestOBJCXXCompiler.cmake:62 (message):
The Objective-C++ compiler
"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.28.29333/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"
is not able to compile a simple test program. It fails with the following output:
Change Dir: D:/puzzlenew/out/build/x64-Debug (default)/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Run Build Command(s):C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/Ninja/ninja.exe cmTC_0f8c7 && [1/2] Building OBJCXX object CMakeFiles\cmTC_0f8c7.dir\testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.o
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.28.29337 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'o' has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-x'
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'objective-c++', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'objective-c++' ignored
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'testOBJCXXCompiler.mm', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'testOBJCXXCompiler.mm' ignored
cl : Command line warning D9021 : no action performed
[2/2] Linking OBJCXX executable cmTC_0f8c7.exe
FAILED: cmTC_0f8c7.exe
cmd.exe /C "cd . && C:\PROGRA~2\MIB055~1\2019\COMMUN~1\VC\Tools\MSVC\1428~1.293\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe /machine:x64 CMakeFiles\cmTC_0f8c7.dir\testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.o -o cmTC_0f8c7.exe && cmd.exe /C "cd /D "D:\puzzlenew\out\build\x64-Debug (default)\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp" && C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noprofile -executionpolicy Bypass -file C:/src/win32/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/msbuild/applocal.ps1 -targetBinary "D:/puzzlenew/out/build/x64-Debug (default)/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/cmTC_0f8c7.exe" -installedDir C:/src/win32/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/bin -OutVariable out""
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.28.29337 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'o' has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/machine:x64'
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'CMakeFiles\cmTC_0f8c7.dir\testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.o', object file assumed
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.28.29337.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
/out:testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.exe
/out:cmTC_0f8c7.exe
CMakeFiles\cmTC_0f8c7.dir\testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.o
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'CMakeFiles\cmTC_0f8c7.dir\testOBJCXXCompiler.mm.o'
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project. C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.18/Modules/CMakeTestOBJCXXCompiler.cmake 62
