[CMake] MSYS is a Unix

[David Cole]

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:STRING=/usr/local should work...

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>>
>> I edited ./bootstrap so that KWSYS_C_SOURCES=ProcessWin32 and got 
>> much farther compiling *.o files, but upon linkage I got a lot of 
>> undefined symbols.  It looks like this script assumes Unix and has no 
>> configuration for Win32.
>
>
> I had better luck building cmake for MSYS using cmake.  cmake.exe 
> built fine
>
> cmakesetup.exe was not built because (1) the test for curses is 
> guarded by IF(UNIX) and (2) there isn't any curses anyways.  I 
> downloaded PDCurses from http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net .  The stable 
> 2.6 version would not build; unsurprising, since it dates from 2003.  
> The CVS version built fine, but unfortunately testcurs.exe fails with 
> an error, as do all the other demo and test programs.  So, curses 
> support on mingw / msys is not ready for prime time.  I don't intend 
> to chase this one down, I have bigger fish to fry.
>
> I will inquire, however, whether MSYS users feel that /usr/local or 
> C:\Program Files is the more appropriate default installation directory.
>
> I do notice that if one is using the Windows CMakeSetup.exe, 
> /usr/local is not allowed as a filename.  I am wondering why cmake.exe 
> has no readily documented way to provide an installation prefix on the 
> command line.  That is, when I type "cmake --help" I don't see 
> anything that would let me do it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>
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