Cmake test error when installing Caffe, cl.exe is not able to compile a simple test program.

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Hi all,

I am installing Caffe for windows 11. In one of the steps ( running C:\Projects\caffe> scripts\build_win.cmd according to the installation guide on Caffe github page), I get the following errors:

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- Detecting C compiler ABI info - failed`
> -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe - broken
CMake Error at C:/cmake-3.22.3-windows-x86_64/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:69 (message):
  The C compiler

    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe"

  is not able to compile a simple test program.

Do you know what is the problem and it can be solved?

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the following is the complete response in the cmd:

> C:\projects\caffe\scripts>build_win.cmd
The system cannot find the drive specified.
The system cannot find the drive specified.
INFO: ============================================================
INFO: Summary:
INFO: ============================================================
INFO: MSVC_VERSION               = 14
INFO: WITH_NINJA                 = 1
INFO: CMAKE_GENERATOR            = "Ninja"
INFO: CPU_ONLY                   = 0
INFO: CUDA_ARCH_NAME             = Auto
INFO: CMAKE_CONFIG               = Release
INFO: USE_NCCL                   = 0
INFO: CMAKE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS    = 0
INFO: PYTHON_VERSION             = 2
INFO: BUILD_PYTHON               = 1
INFO: BUILD_PYTHON_LAYER         = 1
INFO: BUILD_MATLAB               = 0
INFO: PYTHON_EXE                 = "python"
INFO: RUN_TESTS                  = 0
INFO: RUN_LINT                   = 0
INFO: RUN_INSTALL                = 0
INFO: ============================================================
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24215.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24215.1
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - failed
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe - broken
CMake Error at C:/cmake-3.22.3-windows-x86_64/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:69 (message):
  The C compiler

    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe"

  is not able to compile a simple test program.

  It fails with the following output:

    Change Dir: C:/projects/caffe/scripts/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

    Run Build Command(s):C:/projects/ninja-1.10.2/ninja.exe cmTC_11b32 && [1/2] Building C object CMakeFiles\cmTC_11b32.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj
    [2/2] Linking C executable cmTC_11b32.exe
    FAILED: cmTC_11b32.exe
    cmd.exe /C "cd . && C:\cmake-3.22.3-windows-x86_64\bin\cmake.exe -E vs_link_exe --intdir=CMakeFiles\cmTC_11b32.dir --rc=rc --mt=CMAKE_MT-NOTFOUND --manifests  -- C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\VC\bin\amd64\link.exe /nologo CMakeFiles\cmTC_11b32.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj  /out:cmTC_11b32.exe /implib:cmTC_11b32.lib /pdb:cmTC_11b32.pdb /version:0.0 /debug /INCREMENTAL /subsystem:console  kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib && cd ."
    RC Pass 1: command "rc /fo CMakeFiles\cmTC_11b32.dir/manifest.res CMakeFiles\cmTC_11b32.dir/manifest.rc" failed (exit code 0) with the following output:
    The system cannot find the file specified
    ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.





  CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:18 (project)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/projects/caffe/scripts/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/projects/caffe/scripts/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
ERROR: Configure failed
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Did you run vcvars and setup your compiler environment?

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before this, I got errors for vcvarsall.bat that couldn’t be found in the VC folder VS 14.0 directory.
Apparently, I have multiple versions installed and this file was in under another directory. what I did was I moved it from directories of previous versions to V14.0:
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I also got errors regarding C and CXX compiler environments. I re-installed it and now it seems those errors are gone.

does this answer your question? I might miss some details here and there because I don’t have much experience working with these programs.

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So, you should make sure that your compiler is installed correctly and working from the command line that you are running CMake from. To test this create a very simple c++ program in foo.cxx.
int main(int, char**) { return 0;}
You should then be able to compile it without error like this:

 cl foo.cxx
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.29.30136 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

foo.cxx
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.29.30136.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/out:foo.exe
foo.obj

Once that works CMake should work.