[cmake-developers] Unix Makefiles under MSys

[Bill Hoffman]

On 5/17/2013 10:52 AM, Sean Farrell wrote:
> Brad, I can see the reasoning, except for the fact that cmake completely
> ignores the settings and environment variables relevant to the selected
> toolchain. Respecting the prefix variable, would be the
> minimal concession to "Unix".
>
What environment variables are you talking about?

> Bill, "MinGW Makefiles" is useless, since it is even more windows, since
> it use cmd.exe and mingw32-make.exe. That is ok, since that is what a
> vanilla MinGW environment is. MSYS Makefiles is basically identical to
> Unix Makefiles, so I see no difference (as seen from the outside).
>
MinGW and MSYS work well with those compilers and versions of gmake that 
come with MinGW and MSYS.    MSYS Makefiles are not identical to Unix 
Makefiles, mostly due to the paths internally.

What is your use case?   What are you trying to do?

-Bill