I followed the online documentation to build wiredtiger on a Windows spawn host (VS 2017), and ran into the below CMake error:
C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\wiredtiger\build>C:\cmake\bin\cmake ..\. C:\cmake\bin\cmake ..\. -- Building for: Visual Studio 15 2017 -- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.17763.0 to target Windows 10.0.14393. -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27043.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27043.0 -- The ASM compiler identification is MSVC -- Found assembler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Detecting CXX compile features -- Detecting CXX compile features - done -- Performing Test HAVE_BUILD_MODE_C_FLAGS -- Performing Test HAVE_BUILD_MODE_C_FLAGS - Failed VERBOSESkipping build mode definition due to unavailable C flags: ASan VERBOSESkipping build mode definition due to unmet dependencies: UBSan VERBOSESkipping build mode definition due to unmet dependencies: MSan VERBOSESkipping build mode definition due to unmet dependencies: TSan VERBOSESkipping build mode definition due to unmet dependencies: Coverage CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:39 (message): cmake/configs//windows/config.cmake does not exist -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/wiredtiger/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/wiredtiger/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
We need to understand the cause of this error and provide a fix to unblock WiredTiger builds on Windows systems.
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WT-10554 Make Windows build process/documentation better
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- Open
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