Problem configuring on Windows

[nicola-gigante]

I'm trying to compile libfmt on Windows. I'm using Visual Studio 2019 Community and the cmake provided by the VS installation (3.19).
What I get is the following (very strange) error:

> cmake -DFMT_TEST=NO ..
-- CMake version: 3.19.20122902-MSVC_2
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.19041.0 to target Windows 10.0.19042.
-- Version: 7.1.3
-- Build type: Release
-- CXX_STANDARD: 11
-- Required features: cxx_variadic_templates
-- Target 'doc' disabled (requires doxygen)
-- Configuring done
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:194 (add_library):
  Cannot find source file:

    README.rst

  Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp .cxx .cu .m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm
  .hpp .hxx .in .txx .f .F .for .f77 .f90 .f95 .f03 .ispc


CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:194 (add_library):
  No SOURCES given to target: fmt


CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.

Am I doing anything wrong?

[vitaut]

Looks like a bug in Microsoft's version of CMake. Have you tried a normal CMake?

[nicola-gigante]

Just tried now, I get the same error with stock cmake 3.20

[nicola-gigante]

Ok, I just tried checking out the master branch of fmt (I was using the 7.1.3 stable release) and now it works. So it looks like a bug in the release.

[vitaut]

Thanks for checking.