[CMake] Finding libs/headers on MSYS/MinGW

[Joshua Blocher]

Hi,

On all 3 platforms we use pkg-config which is available for win32 on
the GTK+ for windows page.  If you need any help let me know.

Joshua L. Blocher
verbalshadow

On 9/25/06, Kai Sterker <kai.sterker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm facing some troubles using cmake on a Windows environment with
> MSYS and MinGW. It's doing it's job on Linux and I'm getting close on
> OSX, but on Windows it is not even able to find the required libraries
> and associated header files, all compiled within MSYS and neatly
> installed to /usr/local.
>
> >From browsing the cmake sources, I figured that this appears to be my
> problem. A CMake compiled from MSYS (as opposed to cygwin) seems to be
> a native Windows App with limited knowledge of stuff like /usr/local.
> So when I run it from a MSYS shell, it happily translates environment
> variables like CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include to
> CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING='-ID:/Programme/msys/local/include ', but it
> fails to do the same magic for the search paths in the various
> find*.cmake scripts.
>
> So my question is, would it be possible to include this functionality?
> If cmake runs from MSYS and encounters a path like /usr/lib or
> /usr/local/include, could it translate this to something like
> $MSYS_PATH/lib or $MSYS_PATH/local/include? Appearently it's doing
> that with the environment variables, so it would only be consistent if
> it did the same for all these unixish search paths.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Kai
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