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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This is a repost (and rewording) of an earlier post “</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Setting CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL or CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM with MinGW tools,” which garnered no response. Hopefully this post is clearer:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have Cmake 2.8.8 installed along with MinGW 4.7.2 on Windows XP with no other development tools. I would like this project to build using only MinGW tools, if possible. The project includes C and Fortran code, and those are both recognized (GNU 4.7.2 and GNU, respectively) and correctly generate simple test programs.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>However, Cmake fails at the next step with this message:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Cmake Error: Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was: nmake /NOLOGO “cmTryCompileExec970418286\fast”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I cannot understand why it would be calling ‘nmake’ and not ‘mingw32-make.exe’. I added this to my CMakeLists.txt file:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> SET(CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But this has not helped. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>