Airsim: Airsim Build error: Cmake Windows

[ethbond]

Attempting to build Airsim, error reading what version cmake I have.
did cmake --version to check installed version (see screen cap), seems to be fine any ideas?

[samuelgarcia321]

try install module C++ In Microsoft Visual Studio.
its worked for me.

[arian-amador]

Initially looking at this it seems like an issue with find or cmake but then noticed that you cloned the AirSim repo into your c:\Windows\System32 directory AND you're also running the Native Tools CLI as an admin?

I recommend you try and start the native tools as a normal user and clone the AirSim repo into another non-system directory. Example: c:\AirSim\

[ethbond]

@samuelgarcia321 So I verified that the C++ module was installed (see images) also included a list of the individual components perhaps I have missed something?

@arian-amador Moved it to my D: drive, ran as a normal user rather than admin, same problem.

[madratman]

@ethbond, were you able to compile it?
can you try reinstalling cmake >=3.9 from here https://cmake.org/download/

[ethbond]

@madratman

I managed to compile it, but by doing a workaround. The cmake install is fine. The problem seems to be with Check_cmake.bat, failing to find the cmake version, or writing the version it finds to the "cmake_version" variable. My workaround was to just type in my version into line 8 of Check_cmake.bat:

set "cmake_version= 3. 13"

Saved the .bat, ran the build again and it worked fine.

[madratman]

@ethbond thanks for getting back quickly
hmm. that's weird, I haven't seen any other issue in which cmake wasn't found..
ok, I did a quick hunt again in old issues, and this comment seems related https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim/issues/755#issuecomment-423298213

The issue seems to be this line https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim/blob/master/check_cmake.bat#L12
'cmake --version ^| find "cmake version"'

Can you please share the output of where Find.exe on your machine? Maybe you and @vincedjango had similar causes.

In my machine, I don't have cygwin, so it's simply:

C:\Users\ramadaan>where Find.exe
C:\Windows\System32\find.exe