[CMake] CMake CVS MinGW generator fails

Brandon J. Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 04:01:19 EST 2006


William A. Hoffman wrote:
> OK, so here is the problem:
>
> http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2006-01/thread00091-0.html
>
> If make finds sh.exe in your path, it will use it, and then
> "MinGW Makefiles" will not work.  If sh.exe is in your PATH, then
> you must use "MSYS Makefiles" or "Unix Makefiles".   I suppose I could
> put a check in for this, and if sh.exe is found and you try "MinGW Makefiles"
> cmake produces and error.
>   
An error is a good idea.  Users are definitely going to get confused 
about whether they should be using the MinGW or the MSYS generator.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every



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