[CMake] MinGW Makefile fails make test

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-02-26 17:57-0800 Donald Robinson wrote:

> This is a repost (and rewording) of an earlier post "Setting
> CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL or CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM with MinGW tools," which garnered no
> response. Hopefully this post is clearer:
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> I have Cmake 2.8.8 installed along with MinGW 4.7.2 on Windows XP with no
> other development tools. I would like this project to build using only MinGW
> tools, if possible. The project includes C and Fortran code, and those are
> both recognized (GNU 4.7.2 and GNU, respectively) and correctly generate
> simple test programs. However, Cmake fails at the next step with this
> message:
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>   Cmake Error: Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was: nmake
> /NOLOGO "cmTryCompileExec970418286\fast"
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> I cannot understand why it would be calling 'nmake' and not
> 'mingw32-make.exe'. I added this to my CMakeLists.txt file:
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>   SET(CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe)
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> But this has not helped.

I wonder if the issue is something simple like a failure on your part
to specify the correct generator for a MinGW system without MSYS,
i.e.,

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles"

I don't use that generator very much.  I prefer -G "MSYS Makefiles"
because the test targets configured for my various software build
systems tend to use MSYS executables such as bash.exe.  However,
whenever I have tried "MinGW Makefiles" it has worked for me.  All my
good -G "MSYS Makefiles" and -G "MinGW Makefiles" results for cmake
have been achieved on the Wine version of Windows, but I think the
version of Windows should not be an issue this case.

Alan
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