[CMake] cmake for cygwin

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Friday, October 22, 2010 07:04:12 am Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Ven 22/10/10, Michael Wild  ha scritto:
> > >> That's why one should check for CYGWIN in the
> > >> CMakeLists.txt files. IMHO this is a user-error
> > 
> > and not
> > 
> > >> CMake's fault. The doc clearly states about the
> > 
> > WIN32
> > 
> > >> variable:
> > >>        WIN32  True on
> > 
> > windows
> > 
> > >> systems, including win64.
> > > 
> > > But for cygwin is WRONG. It should be false
> > 
> > One could also argue that cygwin is running under WIN32. A
> > matter of convention.
> 
> Sorry again, but you are wrong.
> It is not a convention, Cygwin is a unix platform.
> Cygwin programs don't work as usual win32 programs

I did see in the Cygwin overview that the Win32 api should generally be 
avoided.

However, its probably misleading that chapter 4, "Programming with Cygwin," 
shows Win32 code instead of Unix code in the examples.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/programming.html

Clint