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<div>Hi </div>
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<div>I am new to cmake. I have installed cmake (using <font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">cmake-2.6.4-win32-x86.exe</font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">) on my Win XP platform, on which I also have Visual Studio 2005 </font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Prof
</font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">and Visual Studio 200</font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">8 Express installed.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I am trying to build PLplot, whose instructions tell me to run:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install ..</font></div>
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<div>but I get:</div>
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<div>CMake Error: Could not create named generator</div>
<div>-- Check for working C compiler: gcc</div>
<div>-- Check for working C compiler: gcc -- broken</div>
<div>The C compiler "gcc" is not able to compile a simple test program.</div>
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<div>It appears that cmake only knows about the unix generator:</div>
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<div>C:\plplot-5.9.5\buildnmake>cmake --help</div>
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<div>The following generators are available on this platform:</div>
<div> Unix Makefiles = Generates standard UNIX makefiles.</div>
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<div>I have run Visual Studio file vcvars32.bat</div>
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<div>How can I install the nmake and Visual Studio 8 generators please?</div>
<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Best regards<font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"> </font></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">David<font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"> </font></font></div>
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