[CMake] Problem with recognising the MSYS environment

Maik Beckmann beckmann.maik at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 16 04:43:45 EDT 2009


Arjen Markus schrieb am Donnerstag 16 April 2009 um 09:32:
> Hello,
>
> in the PLplot project I have run into a few problems with the MSYS
> environment under Windows XP. The first one is that the CMake variable
> MSYS does not get set properly - or else I am doing something wrong.
>
> Here is what I do to work under MSYS:
> - Start the rxvt console (via a shortcut created during the installation
>    of MSYS)
>
> - I start CMake (version 2.6.2, IIRC) with:
>    cmake -G "Unix makefiles" .

MSYS has its own generator, so this should be
  cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles"

Best,
 -- Maik


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