[CMake] cmake on MinGW64; which generator

[Ray Donnelly]

The problem is the time required to upstream such work. Unfortunately I do
not have that time.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 12:15 AM Alan W. Irwin <Alan.W.Irwin1234 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2019-06-24 07:39-0600 Christopher Webster wrote:
>
> > Thank you Benjamin, that [install and use mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake in the
> mingw64 shell] fixed it.
>
> I was happy to hear that Benjamin solved this first issue for you.
>
> Just to follow up on what he said, I confirm the good PLplot results
> for the MSYS2 platform that I referred to in my previous post also
> used the "mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake" native package rather than the
> non-native (linked to msys2.dll) "cmake" package.
>
> You (and others reading this thread) should consult the patches at
> <https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-cmake>
> to see the various ways that the "mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake" package
> differs from vanilla cmake for Windows from Kitware.  I agree with
> another poster's comments that if indeed some or all of those fixes
> are really necessary for the MSYS2 platform that ideally they should
> be adopted by the upstream CMake developers.  So I hope those
> developers are (i) reading this thread and (ii) willing to follow up
> by looking at those patches.
>
> Alan
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