visual studio express 2012 and cmake

Question

I am looking for a way to compile some libraries which come ready to be used through cmake, the problem is that I would like to use VC++ express 2012 (the first express version

Answer 1

The other solutions don't work anymore; with the latest (express 2012 for desktop as of writing) you may need to modify:

C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\share\cmake-2.8\Modules\CMakeVS12FindMake.cmake

To read something like:

#=============================================================================
# Copyright 2007-2013 Kitware, Inc.
#
# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
# see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
#
# This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
# implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
# See the License for more information.
#=============================================================================
# (To distribute this file outside of CMake, substitute the full
#  License text for the above reference.)

# Always use MSBuild because:
# - devenv treats command-line builds as recently-loaded projects in the IDE
# - devenv does not appear to support non-standard platform toolsets
# If we need devenv for Intel Fortran in the future we should add
# a special case when Fortran is enabled.
find_program(CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM
  NAMES MSBuild
  HINTS "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\MSBuild\\ToolsVersions\\4.0;MSBuildToolsPath]" <--- Change this line.
  )
message("Found: ${CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM}")

mark_as_advanced(CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM)
set(MSVC12 1)
set(MSVC_VERSION 1800)

This is for cmake 2.8.11.2

Edit: Note specifically this is with regard to the VS2012 bundle, not the VS2013 release candidate, or future version of VS2013, where the correct ToolsVersions is \12.0