[cmake-developers] Building with cmake on MSYS/MinGW

[Greg Jung]

This didn't sink in:, but now I get it.

>
> > As it is, cmake on windows doesn't get the "mounting" of /usr
>
> The MSYS "soft mount" is a feature of the MSYS shell.  It maps
> such paths in command lines to the corresponding Windows paths.
> No other programs are expected to translate such paths.

  Now I've backed my header file installation out from /usr/include and I'm
in simple
C-header hell.  Thanks again.


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 05/18/2014 04:47 AM, Greg Jung wrote:
> > I'm trying to get cmake to build on a MSYS/Mingw system.
>
> We have nightly testing of building CMake itself using both
> the MSYS Makefiles generator and the MinGW Makefiles generator.
> We even test running the "bootstrap" script on MSYS.
>
> What is not working for you?  Are you launching from the MSYS
> shell?
>
> > As it is, cmake on windows doesn't get the "mounting" of /usr
>
> The MSYS "soft mount" is a feature of the MSYS shell.  It maps
> such paths in command lines to the corresponding Windows paths.
> No other programs are expected to translate such paths.
>
> > when I message the path-lists ... the semi-colons have disappeared
>
> Put the variable reference inside a ""-quoted argument.
>
> -Brad
>
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