It has been several years since I worked on mongoDB (Windows 7 64 bit SP1 & mongoDB 2.2.0) and was able to install the c++ driver as part of building mongodb from source. Apparently that has changed.

I have built R3.3.5 from source. According to https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/wiki/Quickstart-Guide-%28New-Driver%29 I need to first build the C driver and then the C++ driver.

Following this documentation to install on Windows:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/blob/master/README.rst

Downloaded zip and stored it in C:\mongo-c-driver-1.3.5

Per the README:

cd mongo-c-driver-1.3.5
cd src\libbson
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\usr -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" .

Returned this error:

CMake Error: The source directory "C:/mongo-c-driver-1.3.5/src/libbson" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

Which makes sense because src/libson is empty. CMakeLists.txt is in C:/mongo-c-driver-1.3.5

So I try running cmake in the mongo-c-driver-1.3.5 directory:

C:\mongo-c-driver-1.3.5>cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\usr -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" .
– The C compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.40629.0
– The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 18.0.40629.0
– Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
– Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64 – works
– Detecting C compiler ABI info
– Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
– Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
– Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64 – works
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
– Detecting CXX compile features
– Detecting CXX compile features - done
– Found BSON: BSON-NOTFOUND;ws2_32
– Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder in the system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (missing: OPENSSL_LIBRARIES OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR)
– Searching for sasl/sasl.h
– Not found (specify -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=C:/path/to/sasl/include for SASL support)
– Searching for libsasl2
– Not found (specify -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=C:/path/to/sasl/lib for SASL support)
Current version (from VERSION_CURRENT file): 1.3.5
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
BSON (ADVANCED)
linked by target "mongoc_shared" in directory C:/mongo-c-driver-1.3.5
linked by target "mongoc_static" in directory C:/mongo-c-driver-1.3.5

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/mongo-c-driver-1.3.5/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

So any clues on how to install the C driver so I can get on to installing the C++ driver?

Thanks. Tried posting to mongodb-user with no results.