[CMake] Current documentation and module standards

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Jul 25 10:25:28 EDT 2007


Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Zitat von Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:
>> Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>>> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Install.html:
>>> - Somehow, the combination of MSYS+mingw32 is always forgotten as a 
>>>  valid alternative to cygwin. With this combination, you can also  
>>> build cmake from CVS (although running bootstrap did not build the  
>>> CMakeSetup.exe or maybe I did something wrong).
>> You can not build CMakeSetup.exe without MFC which is not included in
>> MSYS+mingw32, so you did nothing wrong,
>> it just does not work.  (which is why it is not a good alternative.)
>
> Hmm, ok. Why would it work with cygwin? Or is ccmake built when using 
> cygwin?
>
ccmake is built with cygwin, and the cmake you get is only for use with 
the cygwin tool chain,
since it uses/knows about cygpath stuff.
> For bootstrapping the result is ok enough for a following build with 
> MSVC :)
>
If you have to build CMake from source on windows, it is best to use a 
previous CMakeSetup
binary release from kitware to create the build files.

-Bill




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