[CMake] Strange things happening with mingw

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Tue Dec 20 12:51:52 EST 2005


At 10:42 PM 12/19/2005, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>William A. Hoffman wrote:
>
>>
>>If you run CMakeSetup from an Msys shell, it works.  There is an odd problem
>>with cmake and msys right now.  If you run CMakeSetup from the start menu,
>>it is not able to run the make.exe from msys for some reason.  
>> 
>The make.exe that comes with MSYS is specific to MSYS, along with a lot of the other binaries that come with MSYS.  I don't know how well it works outside of a MSYS environment.  Is that the source of your "odd problem?"

Actually, Brad found the problem with the msys make crash.  We should have a fix
for 2.2.4.  But for now, you have to run CMakeSetup from a command prompt. 
The problem was a missing stdin pipe which the make in msys requires.  When CMakeSetup
is run from the Start menu it has no stdin, but from a command prompt it has one.

-Bill



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