On 06.06.2012 20:21, Claus Klein wrote:
Hi Peter,
Today I have tried to work with ninja on MSYS.
I have a view questions:
1. Is cmake build on MSYS or build on windows when you test with it the ninja
generator?
I tried the windows version, but it fails, ....
Hi Claus,
I only build with MSVC or mingw without MSYS. I never tried "MinGW Makefile"
generator on msys,
does this work?
2. MSYS has a bash sh program, why is cmd /c used at a unix like environment?
It is not fast to start a a shell the old stupid dos cmd shell again and to
have the cmdline length problems again!
ATM it ignores MSYS: running cmake.exe == using cmd.exe
But after the big mingw failure today, msys is maybe simpler than plain win32
mingw.
3. The gcc, ar, and other binutils I found are quite actual and the @response
file options are known
But it is a bash, not command, so only posix path separator must be used, '\'
and spaces must be quoted!
IMO cmake, at least the ninja generator should respect this, than it works.
Overall I come to the conclusion, that cross-compiling with ninja and mingw on
Linux
is better supported than using mingw and ninja on Windows.
An other question about dependancy generation on Windows and MSYS:
I found the Makefile Generator creates dep files on MSYS, but the gcc can do it
by the way? He, wait?
It is it an open issue for the Nina generator to not create depend files on
Windows with cl when cmake know to do it?
With gcc you can produce dependency files, also on Windows. The problem is to
use cl as single source
for dependency files. cl supports /ShowIncludes but it has not a dependency
file generation feature like gcc.
But your idea to use gcc to generate dependencies even when the "real work" is
done by cl is
interesting. There are already several attempts discussed on the ninja list (or
there are pull requests)
to fix this issue, but the idea to mix a msvc and a mingw build is new. Would
be a challenge.
...
C:\Wascana\mingw\bin\ar.exe:
CMakeFilescmTryCompileExec2945905931.dirtestCCompiler.c.obj: No such file
Feeding MSYS with back-slashes will not work, no surprise.
or directory
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Cheers,
Peter
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