[CMake] MinGW detection question
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Fri Jan 4 11:11:37 EST 2008
E. Wing wrote:
> I'm playing around with the MinGW generator. I was wondering if there
> is a special environmental variable that CMake will check for finding
> mingw32-make.exe. MinGW is not in my PATH so everytime I specify the
> MinGW generator in CMakeSetup, it complains it can't find the make
> program. I was hoping I could make CMake happy without adding more
> stuff to my PATH.
>
CMake assumes the environment is setup to work. Just like with visual
studio, you have to run vcvars.bat. Basically, cmake expects a working
compiler, and can not modify the PATH. It can not modify the PATH
because it won't be around when make is actually run.
-Bill
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