[CMake] 'make' does nothing in msys?

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/14/2012 4:57 PM, David Doria wrote:
> I found and used the MSYS generator, and after adding msys/bin to PATH,
> it worked as I expected. I also found that with the MinGW generator, it
> worked properly by running 'mingw32-make' rather than just 'make'. I am
> still confused as to why it didn't complain that 'make' was not found
> (no such file, etc), but these two methods seem to work:
>
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Configuring_and_Building/MinGW
>
> If anyone can comment about this lingering question, verify that these
> two techniques are reasonable, or explain the difference between the
> two, that would be great :)
>
Did cmake --build . work?

I suspect that you picked up some make in your PATH.  That make most 
likely did not resolve all of its dll's so it silently failed to do 
anything.

If you ran make --version, does it print nothing?   How about which make?

Anyway, not really a cmake issue... :)

-Bill


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