[cmake-developers] Unix Makefiles under MSys

[Brad King]

On 05/17/2013 10:04 AM, Sean Farrell wrote:
> If you ask cmake the description for "Unix Makefiles" is:
> 
>     *Generates standard UNIX makefiles.*

This is about the format of the Makefile syntax and therefore
the choice of make tool, not about the platform targeted by the
compiler toolchain.

> What it standard about "C:/Program Files (x86)"?

It is standard for the target platform (Windows) and is the same
across all generators for Windows toolchains.  The MinGW toolchain
targets Windows.

The selection of the build (make) tool and the selection of the
compiler toolchain targeting a specific platform are orthogonal
concepts.

-Brad