[CMake] Building CMake on Windows

[Michael Jackson]

<don't miss the sarcasm>
  If you have cmake installed, you can bootstrap newer versions of  
CMake on Windows.
</don't miss the sarcasm>
-1 for not being helpful. +1 for General information.  ;-)

Mike Jackson

On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:58 PM, steve naroff <snaroff at apple.com>  
> wrote:
>> The 'Readme.txt' for the Windows source distribution says:
>>
>> "You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in  
>> order to
>> build CMake."
>>
>> Unlike UNIX/Mac, the Windows source can't be bootstrapped...
>>
>> I assume the Readme.txt is accurate? Any plans to change this?
>
> The Windows source cannot be bootstrapped if you use Visual C++
> because the 'bootstrap' script is a Bourne-shell script. You may want
> to try downloading Zsh from
> http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnu-win32/release/zsh/ , then setting a few
> environment variables (take a look at the bootstrap script) and
> crossing your fingers.
>
> The other path is bootstrapping it on Windows by using
> mingw+msys/cygwin. You may also be able to cross-compile a
> mingw-compiled binary version from OS X, Linux, etc. I have not tried
> any of those options, but they should work.
>
> -- 
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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