[CMake] Generating for cygwin

[David Cole]

This dashboard build of CMake is run from a cygwin bash script using
gmake and the VS 2008 compiler:

  http://cdash.org/CDash/buildSummary.php?buildid=1711851

See the script that drives it here:

  http://cdash.org/CDash/viewNotes.php?buildid=1711851

Perhaps there's a clue in there that will be useful/helpful. (There is
also environment setup on that machine, though, too probably. Like all
the stuff that vcvars.bat would set in a regular Windows cmd prompt.)


  Cheers


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I *have* to use Cygwin, and it should invoke the VS2003 compiler. The code
> is not platform agnostic and is very tied to Windows. Our legacy build
> system is a series of makefile scripts & we use Cygwin to invoke those
> scripts, but everything points to Windows from inside Cygwin.
> Any way to make CMake build makefiles that utilize VS2003?
>
> ---------
> Robert Dailey
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:03 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > How do I generate makefiles for cygwin? Can I run CMake through Windows
>> > and
>> > generate Unix Makefiles, or do I need to run cmake from inside of cygwin
>> > itself to generate?
>> > Instructions would be awesome, since I suck at linux and I'm just doing
>> > this
>> > to test my scripts on something other than Visual Studio.
>> >
>> > ---------
>> > Robert Dailey
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>> If your code is cross-platform and will build on Linux, I'd recommend
>> running a VM on your Windows box that has Linux in it, and do a
>> Linux/make/gcc build of your project before doing cygwin stuff. It'll
>> be faster for one thing, and less frustrating for a second thing.
>>
>> You can do cygwin, if you must... you should use a cygwin-built CMake
>> if you must. Perhaps someone else will chime in with detailed
>> instructions.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
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