Cmake' Is Not Recognised as an Internal or External Command

cmake' is not recognised as an internal or external command

The error message means it cannot find cmake.


You can add its location to your path from the prompt like this:

set PATH="C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\bin\";%PATH%

CMake command is not recognized

It resolved after adding C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin to environment variable PATH.

The term 'cmake' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

In current powershell session, you have to add the path to path environment variable. You have to use this:

$env:path += ";C:\Program Files\cmake\bin"
cmake -g ...

Cmake is not recognized as an internal or external command. How to check the version of cmake installed using windows command prompt

To check if cmake is installed in your windows PC using command line, try to run the cmake command in a prompt: if you have the error you quoted in your question, it's not installed. Note that it doesn't mean cmake isn't effectively installed. It may be installed, but the path to the cmake executable may not have been added to your PATH environment variable: the command line will not be able to find the executable.

VS 2010 and CMake: 'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command

The last time I had this problem was when my Visual Studio 2012 Professional standard installation did not install any Windows SDK (the error log was showing an missing SDK header).

To verify your SDK installation e.g. check that you have any Resource Compiler installed. It should be in a path similar to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v[some version]\bin\RC.Exe

Since I was missing this - or more accurate any SDK - I installed Windows 8.1 SDK (since Visual Studio 2012 does target Windows 8.x) and voila my CMake was able again to compile the (test) programs. I think for Visual Studio 2010 the default would be the Windows 7.0a SDK and for Visual Studio 2015 it would be Windows 10 SDK with Universal C Runtime.

Reference

• The CXX compiler identification is unknown
• Visual Studio 2010 Express, Windows SDK 7.1, CMake and 64 bit

How do I install cmake?

You should download the Windows installer, available here under Binary distributions. You need the x86_64 installer if you're on a 64-bit Windows version, or the i386 installer if you're on a 32-bit Windows version (this should also work on 64-bit Windows versions).

For setting the path see this question.

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