[Cmake] How do you get Cmake to work with MinGW?

[William A. Hoffman]

I think with gnu make you should be able to run from a dos shell.
Is that not the case?  It seems to work for me on my machine.
You do have to make sure make and gcc are in your PATH.


-Bill

At 08:03 AM 1/15/2004, Eric Wing wrote:
>Hi, I finally got it to work, though I don't know how.
>(Maybe one of the windows reboots helped.) I did
>install Msys, however, I discovered that CMakeSetup
>will work without Msys (launched through more
>conventional methods like Explorer).
>
>However, the Makefiles that were created needed to be
>used through Msys, which leads me to my next question.
>What is it that makes Msys required for MinGW for
>Cmake? I've seen some MinGW based projects that could
>be built on the Windows command shell without the need
>of anything like Msys or Cygwin. (MAME comes to mind.)
>Since CMake can already handle other Windows build
>systems, to my uninformed mind, it seems like CMake
>should be really close to not needing stuff like Msys.
>
>Thanks
>
>> It sounds like your mingw is not installed
>> correctly.
>> CMake is unable to run the make program.   The way I
>> have
>> run it is to install Msys.  Then run CMakeSetup from
>> MSYS.   
>> 
>> -Bill
>> 
>
>
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