[CMake] [Fwd: Re: building within msys/mingw]

[Bill Hoffman]

Kenneth Boyd wrote:
> Apologies for not replying to the list.  Forwarding:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Re: [CMake] building within msys/mingw
> Date:     Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:07:37 -0500
> From:     Kenneth Boyd <zaimoni at zaimoni.com>
> To:     Jason Addison <jraddison at gmail.com>
> References:     
> <4ae645d30903271932r6f76d398r5faf5dc619c7fdae at mail.gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Jason Addison wrote:
>> I'm having trouble running bootstrap. I have mingw and msys installed.
>> As much as possible, I have installed everything as recommended. (I'm
>> trying to build and install cmake in order to build Open Scene Graph.)
>>
>> ....
>> Did I miss some key documentation? Everything that I was building in
>> mingw/msys was working as expected until I got to cmake.
>>   
> No.  Cf. http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7870 for how I 
> bypassed this enough to allow forcing MingW32 to work (with both 
> bootstrapped and prebuilt Windows binaries).
> Kenneth
> 

I just updated the bug.   Bootstrap should not be required with msys or 
mingw.  You should be able to use the windows binary for cmake to 
bootstrap cmake.   We do this with dashboards each night, and all tests 
pass.  So, the binary CMake for windows should work just fine with a 
standard mingw install.

-Bill