MongoDB CXX driver 3.11.0 failded to build behind firewall

Hello

I am trying to build the MongoDB CXX 3.11.0 driver. Bet build fails when I try to configure the driver build.

I My calling syntax is: D:\4_LibraryBuild\mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0>cmake.exe -G “Visual Studio 15 2017” -A “x64” -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=“D:\4_LibraryBuild\01_lib-build\MongoC”

I am using CMake 3.22.3

The output is as folowed:

D:\4_LibraryBuild\mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0>cmake.exe -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A "x64" -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="D:\4_LibraryBuild\01_lib-build\MongoC"
CMake Warning:
  No source or binary directory provided.  Both will be assumed to be the
  same as the current working directory, but note that this warning will
  become a fatal error in future CMake releases.


-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.26100.0 to target Windows 10.0.22631.
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27051.0
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found libmongoc 1.28.1, don't need to download it.
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:194 (message):
  mongocxx: The default CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is being overridden to the build
  directory.  This behavior will not be the default in a future release.
  Build with 'MONGOCXX_OVERRIDE_DEFAULT_INSTALL_PREFIX=OFF' to opt into what
  will be the default behavior in a future release.  Setting install path to:
  D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/install


-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27051.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx86/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- bsoncxx version: 3.11.0
-- Auto-configuring bsoncxx to use C++17 std library polyfills since C++17 is active and user didn't specify otherwise
-- found libbson version 1.28.1
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR - Failed
-- Downloading Catch2...
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.9.21+g9802d43bc3 for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Checking Build System
  Creating directories for 'ep_catch2-populate'
  Building Custom Rule D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/_deps/ep_catch2-subbuild/CMakeLists.txt
  Performing download step (git clone) for 'ep_catch2-populate'
  CMake Error at ep_catch2-subbuild/ep_catch2-populate-prefix/src/ep_catch2-populate-stamp/ep_catch2-populate-download-Debug.cmake:49 (message):
    Command failed: 1

     'C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe' '-P' 'D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/_deps/ep_catch2-subbuild/ep_catch2-populate-prefix/tmp/ep_catch2-populate-gitclone.cmake'

    See also

      D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/_deps/ep_catch2-subbuild/ep_catch2-populate-prefix/src/ep_catch2-populate-stamp/ep_catch2-populate-download-*.log


C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(209,5): error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 1. [D:\4_LibraryBuild\mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0\_deps\ep_catch2-subbuild\ep_catch2-populate.vcxproj]

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1087 (message):
  Build step for ep_catch2 failed: 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1216:EVAL:2 (__FetchContent_directPopulate)
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1216 (cmake_language)
  C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1259 (FetchContent_Populate)
  cmake/FetchCatch2.cmake:38 (FetchContent_MakeAvailable)
  cmake/FetchCatch2.cmake:51 (fetch_catch2)
  src/bsoncxx/test/CMakeLists.txt:15 (include)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "D:/4_LibraryBuild/mongo-cxx-driver-r3.11.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

For me it looks like “Catch2” could not be downloaded. Important is that I am behind a company firewall, and a download will not be accepted.
Is there a way to download and configure “Catch2” manually?

Best regards
Thomas

Hello Rishabh_Bisht

I tried this way and it was working. Thank you for this!!!

I solved my problem in a “different” way. I was setting a proxy server in CMAKE in the environment variables since I know the company proxy server. I set this environment variables in the Visual Studio command prompt before calling CMake:

set HTTP_PROXY=“http://Proxyservername”
set HTTPS_PROXY=“https://Proxyservername”

After setting the environment variables, CMake was able to download “Catch2”.