[CMake] Running NMake from a Cygwin Bash shell... is it possible?

[Bill Hoffman]

Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>   
>> Hi Miguel,
>>
>>   I do that all the time. You only need to modify PATH to work on
>> cyginw (ie. replace the ; with :). You should NOT change LIB or
>> INCLUDE, those variable are read by cl/link thus should contains ; as
>> separators
>>     
>
> This was the source of it all. You need PATH the way cygwin requires
> (/cygdrive/c instead c: and colon separated list). For example,
>
> cygVSINSTALLDIR="/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8"
> ...
> export PATH="${cygVSINSTALLDIR}/Common7/Tools:<snip>:${PATH}"
>
> But the LIB, LIBPATH and INCLUDE vars should maintain c: and semicolon
> separated arguments, like in:
>
> VCINSTALLDIR="c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC"
> export LIB="${VCINSTALLDIR}/ATLMFC/LIB;${VCINSTALLDIR}/lib;<snip>"
>
> Thanks to Mathieu and Gonzalo for helping with this.
>
> BTW, the mingw cmake does generate "NMake Makefiles" the cygwin cmake
> doesn't. I successfully generated the "NMake Makefiles" with the mingw
> cmake and built with nmake from the cygwin shell.
>
> I think this is something worth noting in the Wiki... should I open a
> FAQ entry or put it in the generator specific page?
>   
I am not sure where it should go in the wiki, but it does seem to come 
up a lot.  The cygwin
cmake should only be used for building things with the cygwin tool 
chain.  The windows cmake
should be used for all other stuff on windows.

-Bill