[CMake] cmake 2.8.11.2 fails for MSYS and MinGW generators

[Graham Markall]

Hi Martin,

Have you tried

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles"

and

cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles"

?




On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Martin Mitáš <mity at morous.org> wrote:

>
> Hello list,
>
> I am using cmake 2.8.11.2 on Windows 7 (64-bit). I am new to cmake so I
> try to experiment with simple hello world C program to learn it a bit
> as I would like to migrate my projects from hand written Makefiles.
>
> I have mingw (actually mingwbuilds 4.8.1 rev1 installed, see [1])
> installed and I am using MSYS. I also have two versions of MS Visual
> Studio Express installed (10 and 11).
>
> Generators for Visual Studios (both) work for me, both from cmd.exe as
> well as MSYS. Generators for MSYS and MinGW do not though. Output from
> it is below but it does not give any hint what's going wrong.
>
> I noticed that C:\cmake\share\cmake-2.8\**Modules\CMakeMSYSFindMake.**
> cmake
> checks other paths then when I have MSYS mounted, but tailoring with it
> has no effect. Ditto for MinGW.
>
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/**projects/mingwbuilds/files/**
> host-windows/releases/4.8.1/**64-bit/threads-win32/sjlj/<https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.8.1/64-bit/threads-win32/sjlj/>
>
> As said, I am completely new to cmake. Any help would be appreciated.
> Even an idea how to get more info from the cmake what goes wrong might
> help me. (Tried --debug-output and --trace but it does not say anything
> more for the failing commands.)
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Mitas
>
>
> ==============================**====================
>
> $ rm -rf *  &&  cmake -G 'Visual Studio 10' ..
> -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.40219.1
> -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.40219.1
> -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 10
> -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 10 -- works
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 10
> -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 10 -- works
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: D:/prj/x/build
>
> $ rm -rf *  &&  cmake -G 'Visual Studio 11' ..
> -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 17.0.50727.1
> -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 17.0.50727.1
> -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 11
> -- Check for working C compiler using: Visual Studio 11 -- works
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 11
> -- Check for working CXX compiler using: Visual Studio 11 -- works
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: D:/prj/x/build
>
> $ rm -rf *  &&  cmake -G MSYS ..
> CMake Error: Could not create named generator MSYS
>
> $ rm -rf *  &&  cmake -G MinGW ..
> CMake Error: Could not create named generator MinGW
>
> $ ls ..
> CMakeLists.txt  build  hsv.c  hsv.h
>
> $ cat ../CMakeLists.txt
> cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6)
> project (hsv)
> add_executable(hsv hsv.c)
>
> $ which make
> /bin/make.exe
>
> $ mount
> C:\Users\mity\AppData\Local\**Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount)
> c:\Progra~1\java on /java type user (binmode)
> c:\mingw64 on /mingw64 type user (binmode)
> c:\cmake on /cmake type user (binmode)
> c:\msys on /MinGW type user (binmode)
> c:\msys on /msys type user (binmode)
> c:\msys on /usr type user (binmode,noumount)
> c:\msys on / type user (binmode,noumount)
> c:\git on /git type user (binmode)
> d:\prj on /prj type user (binmode)
> d:\src on /src type user (binmode)
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