[CMake] CMAKE - troubles finding executables/paths - Windows 7 / MinGW

[Martin Weber]

Yes, I know this [1] thread is old, but it hurts me, too.

This is what I found:
The mingw32 installer (mingw32-get, IIRC) no longer places a key in the 
windows registry.

So if anyone installed mingw32 in a directory other than c:/MinGW/,
cmake will not find it.
After adding the bin directory of the mingw install location to %PATH%, cmake 
will detect mingw32-make, but it will complain saying 'the compiler is not 
able to build a single program'. 
This happens because cc1.exe (which is *not* in the bin directory) cannot find 
the DLLs located in the bin directory. You have to manually copy the DLLs to 
the directory containing cc1.exe.

Maybe someone finds this useful.

Martin

[1] https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-May/044637.html

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