[cmake-developers] Peculiar issue for "NMake Makefiles JOM"

[Bill Hoffman]

On 6/10/2013 1:25 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Try commenting that out in  Windows-GNU.cmake like this:
>>
>> #enable_language(RC)
>>
>> Then see if it works.
>
> Hi Bill:
>
> I was glad you could access the attachment from the list version. So I
> am putting this discussion back on the list so you can continue to do
> that.
>
> My own gut feeling is that commenting out "enable_language(RC)" is
> simply trying to mask symptoms of a bug caused by the "NMake Makefiles
> JOM" generator not initializing things correctly for the MinGW suite

Yes, of course, I was trying to debug your problem.  That would 
obviously not be the final fix.

> of compilers.  After all, generators that are compatible with the
> MinGW suite of compilers execute Windows-GNU.cmake without issues.
> Nevertheless, you may have had something definite in mind when
> proposing this experiment so I did exactly what you suggested. The
> cmake command (with "enable_language(RC) commented out") was invoked
> like this:
>
> bash.exe-3.1$ cmake --debug-trycompile -G"NMake Makefiles JOM" \
> -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc .. >& cmake.out


Try it  without the --debug-trycompile, that might mess things up.

-Bill