[CMake] Extremely noisy cmake output for the MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform

[Alan W. Irwin]

Here is how I invoke cmake for the MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform for an extremely
simple test case (which builds a hello-world library and links a one-line
app to it)

wine at raven> wine /home/wine/cmake/cmake-2.8.1-win32-x86/bin/cmake cmake \
-G "MSYS Makefiles" \
z:\\home\\software\\plplot_svn/HEAD\\test_cmake\\test_c_library_build \
>& cmake.out

The >& above should capture both stdout and stderr into cmake.out, and
for this simple project the results are as follows:

wine at raven> cat cmake.out
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: Z:/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
fixme:netapi32:NetWkstaUserGetInfo Level 1 processing is partially implemented
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x72f500,0x00000001,0x72f4fc) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x72f540,0x000f0fff,0x72f53c) stub
fixme:netbios:NetServerEnum Stub ((null) 101 0x72efbc -1 0x72efc0 0x72efc4 8
L"DOMAIN" (nil))
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:netapi32:NetUserGetInfo Level 3 is not implemented
fixme:netapi32:NetUserGetInfo Level 3 is not implemented
-- Check for working C compiler: Z:/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
fixme:netapi32:NetWkstaUserGetInfo Level 1 processing is partially implemented
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x72f500,0x00000001,0x72f4fc) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x72f540,0x000f0fff,0x72f53c) stub
fixme:netbios:NetServerEnum Stub ((null) 101 0x72efbc -1 0x72efc0 0x72efc4 8
L"DOMAIN" (nil))
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:netapi32:NetUserGetInfo Level 3 is not implemented
fixme:netapi32:NetUserGetInfo Level 3 is not implemented
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: Z:/home/wine/cmake/build_dir

The above "fixme" warnings are directly from wine to stderr and I presume
they will eventually disappear as wine matures from the latest development
version that I am running (1.1.41).  Otherwise, all seems well with the
cmake.out file for this simple project, and I know from experience that the
project builds and runs nicely afterward under wine.

Now we get to the seriously noisy part that is the principle focus of
this post:

The invocation above also dumped the following to the terminal (rather than
stdout or stderr).  I used cut and paste to capture it and it is subject to
e-mail line wrapping, but you should get the idea.

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/usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build.make
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/buildmake[1]: Entering directory
/z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'/Z/home/wine/cmake/cmake-2.8.1-win32-x86/bin/cmake.exe
-E cmake_progress_report
/Z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CMakeFiles 1Building C
object
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj/Z/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
    -o CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj   -c
/Z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/testCCompiler.cLinking C
executable cmTryCompileExec.exe/Z/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
"CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/testCCompiler.c.obj"   -o
cmTryCompileExec.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libcmTryCompileExec.dll.a
-Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0  -lkernel32 -luser32
-lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32
make[1]: Leaving directory
/z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'/usr/bin/make -f
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/build.make
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/buildmake[1]: Entering directory
/z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'/Z/home/wine/cmake/cmake-2.8.1-win32-x86/bin/cmake.exe
-E cmake_progress_report
/Z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/CMakeFiles 1Building C
object
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/CMakeCCompilerABI.c.obj/Z/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
    -o CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/CMakeCCompilerABI.c.obj   -c
/Z/home/wine/cmake/cmake-2.8.1-win32-x86/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeCCompilerABI.cLinking
C executable cmTryCompileExec.exe/Z/home/wine/mingw/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe
-v "CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/CMakeCCompilerABI.c.obj"   -o
cmTryCompileExec.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libcmTryCompileExec.dll.a
-Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0   Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=z:\home\wine\mingw\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.0_20100311/configure
--enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions
--with-dwarf2 --enable-shared --enable-libgomp --disable-win32-registry
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
--disable-werror --build=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.5.0 20100311 (experimental) (GCC) 
COMPILER_PATH=z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/;z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/;z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/
LIBRARY_PATH=z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/;z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/;z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../../mingw32/lib/;z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-o' 'cmTryCompileExec.exe' '-mtune=i386'
'-march=i386'
  z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/collect2.exe
-Bdynamic -o cmTryCompileExec.exe
z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../crt2.o
z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/crtbegin.o
-Lz:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0
-Lz:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc
-Lz:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../../mingw32/lib
-Lz:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../..
CMakeFiles/cmTryCompileExec.dir/CMakeCCompilerABI.c.obj --out-implib
libcmTryCompileExec.dll.a --major-image-version 0 --minor-image-version 0
-lmingw32 -lgcc_eh -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc_eh -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt
z:/home/wine/mingw/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/crtend.o
make[1]: Leaving directory
/z/home/wine/cmake/build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'wine at raven> 
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On Linux I don't get such noise from cmake.

The following questions are directed mostly to the CMake developers.

Is such cmake noise typical of MinGW/MSYS?

Is there a way I can suppress it or divert it to a file?

Is this some bug in Windows cmake-2.8.1 (the version of cmake that I am
running) or the result of some mismatch between cmake and
the Wine environment?

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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