[CMake] cmake 2.8.11.2 fails for MSYS and MinGW generators [SOLVED]

[Martin Mitáš]

Oops. That's it. My eyes mis-parsed "cmake --help".
Thanks a lot and sorry for so silly report.

Martin


On 18.7.2013 21:25, Graham Markall wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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