On 2012-08-14 09:17-0400 LM wrote:
I built and used cmake on DeLi Linux with no issues, but every time I try it on Windows, I seem to have problems. My latest attempt, I just downloaded version 2.8.9. I'm using mingw (gcc 4.6.2) and msys. From within msys, I tried running ./bootstrap --system-libs --system-zlib --system-bzip2 --system-libarchive --system-curl --no-qt-gui --prefix=/usr/local --docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/CMake --mandir=/usr/local/share/man --verbose It errors out [...]
I have never tried the bootstrap method on MinGW/MSYS, but I have tried using a downloaded Windows binary version of CMake to build cmake on Wine (the free in both senses Windows platform), and that normally works well. Obviously, such a build is sort of pointless if you have already downloaded a binary version of CMake, but I did this exercise to confirm the combination of CMake and MinGW/MSYS worked well on the Wine platform. And then I tested that built version of CMake by using it to build CMake again plus other software. So if the other suggestion that people have made don't solve your problem, you might want to try this exercise yourself to confirm the combination of CMake, MinGW, and proprietary Windows is working well for you for a build of fairly complicated software (CMake). If that exercise works, that should help to eliminate some mundane possibilities (bad MinGW or MSYS, incorrect PATH setup, build or source directory has spaces in the name, etc.) for what is going wrong for you when you try the bootstrap method of building CMake under MinGW/MSYS. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake