[Insight-users] A challenge to all Windows users

[Mike Jackson]

Your MinGW installation is Incomplete. "mingw32-make.exe" is the
"make" program that MinGW installs. It is a slightly different version
than "make" that ships with MSYS or CygWin or Linux systems. Without
it, it is useless to try and go any further. Fix that problem FIRST.

 Why are you still trying with MinGW? Why don't you try Visual Studio/
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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:21 AM, URI <zallen at wheelinghospital.com> wrote:
>
> I added ";C:\MinGW\bin" to my path, just as Kevin instructed.  CMake added
> itself to the path, so the last few entries in my path variable are:
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI
> Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake
> 2.8\bin
>
> I left the ATI entry there so you can see them in context.
>
>
> If I type "gcc" in a command prompt I get:
>
> gcc: no input files
>
>
> If I type "mingw32-make" I get:
>
> 'mingw32-make' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
>
> Which I think makes sense, mingw32-make should not exist until CMake has
> generated it.
>
>
>
>
> Michael Jackson wrote:
>>
>> What EXACTLY is your PATH variable at this point?
>>
>> you should have added ";C:\MinGW\bin" and NOT just ";C:\MinGW" to your
>> PATH. The PATH variable says where to find executables at. There are
>> NO executables in ";C:\MinGW" but there are in ";C:\MinGW\bin". Which
>> is what CMake is telling you in a round about sort of way.
>>
>>   Do this. Open a "Command Prompt" and type "gcc". What happens? type
>> "mingw32-make". What happens?
>>
>>   Report back.
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
>> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>>
>> On Dec 23, 2009, at 11:38 AM, URI wrote:
>>
>>> I even tried this on two different computers (Win7 64-bit and a
>>> WinXP 32-bit
>>> machine that I had never installed any of these programs on before,
>>> so I
>>> know that one is unspoiled).  I see by your addition the path
>>> variable that
>>> you installed MinGW to C:\MinGW which is where I installed it as
>>> well.  I
>>> also double-checked that my path variable has additions for both
>>> MinGW and
>>> CMake.
>>
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