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Error while configuring CMake project: Running 'nmake' '-?' failed

I'm following this tutorial for building GLFW on Windows, and I'm getting the error when running cmake -S . -B Build:

PS ~\glfw-3.3.2\GLFW> cmake -S . -B Build
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (project):
  Running

   'nmake' '-?'

  failed with:

   The system cannot find the file specified


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "~/glfw-3.3.2/GLFW/Build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

Output log is almost completely empty containing only one line with my windows version. I haven't found any discussions or problems matching mine. And I don't even know does nmake have -? flag since it's not listed on microsoft docs site.

I've tried positioning in other folder because maybe that's the case. But with no luck.

I tried solving it with other error solution's but to no avail.

Solution

  • The solution was to append -G "MinGW Makefiles" to cmake -S . -B Build command. As Tsyvarev suggested I looked more into generators and found out that setting the flags doesn't imply which generator will be used. So manually setting the flags solved the problem for me.