CMake 4.1 raises errors when trying to compile sentry native

[JanFellner]

I was playing around with Visual Studio 2026 insiders preview and was forced to installed a nightly from cmake to get support for creating VS2026 project files.

While playing around with it i noticed that i get an error messages when trying to compile sentry-native
Looks like there is something forcing a cl.exe call for assembler content...

CMake Warning (dev) at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-4.1/Modules/CMakeDetermineASMCompiler.cmake:234 (message): Policy CMP194 is not set: MSVC is not an assembler for language ASM. Run "cmake --help-policy CMP194" for policy details. Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning. Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:23 (project) This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

ChatGPT pointed into changing that to either ml.exe or nasm.exe (?, never heared) for windows

Details here:
https://chatgpt.com/share/68cbf098-4170-8013-a6b4-e69cbc50c515

[supervacuus]

An assembly language requirement in the top-level CMake project triggered this. We have no assembly requirement at the top level, so removing this also eliminates the policy warning.

In subprojects, if the project requires it, there is always at least one assembler configured that isn't cl.exe, and thus the policy doesn't trigger a warning there.

PR: #1384

[JanFellner]

closing it as fixed .)