[CMake] mingw vs MSYS makefiles

[Kenneth Boyd]

On 2/23/2012 3:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Both the "MSYS Makefiles" and "MinGW Makefiles" generators have worked
> for me for a fairly recent version (20110802) of MinGW + MSYS
> installed with the automatic installer.  For the latter case I renamed
> sh.exe to something else to keep sh.exe off the PATH.  To answer the
> original poster that rename (rather than manipulating the PATH)
> allowed me to keep bash.exe and other useful MSYS tools used in the
> PLplot test suite on the PATH.
>
> N.B. these good results were for the wine version of Windows rather
> than the Microsoft version, but I doubt something would work on the
> wine platform that did not work on Microsoft Windows.  Of course,
> there are still plenty of things that work on Microsoft Windows that
> do not work on wine, but typically those differences (which continue
> to be chased down and fixed by the wine developers) tend to be
> important only for high-end applications as opposed to relatively
> low-level build tools such CMake, MinGW, and MSYS.
Ok.  I have been using the manual install from tarballs since 2001; it 
has worked reasonably well on everything from Win95 to Win7.

My main problems with this platform have to do with the FSF's 
elimination of the fork emulation in 2002 (negative interaction in 
licensing between GPL and AT&T, the resulting binaries are not very 
distributable according to FSF).

Kenneth