In Cygwin, I do use the cygwin cmake; but it isn't distributed by cygwin, I built it from source. At one point I tried the windows cmake from cygwin and it failed miserably.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > On 2015-04-02 22:57-0700 Greg Jung wrote: > >> This is a long-standing cygwin warning, "CMake no longer defines WIN32 >> on Cygwin!" >> for those rip-van-winkles coming back to cygwin and somehow wanting >> WIN32 to be defined. >> I am very familar with the possible quirks that can arise with Cmake; >> if there is a systemic failure >> it generally blows up in your face. For the test I ran cmake without >> modification - to do that I had to re-direct the cmake command to a >> pristine installation. Although you may not feel comfortable doing >> so, >> "trust me" its not cmake. > > > @Greg: You have much more experience with Cygwin than I do (since my > actual experience is zero). Nevertheless, historically there has been > lots of warnings on the CMake list that Cygwin users _must_ use the > Cygwin version of CMake and not the generic Windows version. So > because Arjen has had success with comprehensive testing on Cygwin in > the past with that approach, and you are currently not having such > success with a generic version of CMake rather than the Cygwin > version, I drew the conclusion you should try the Cygwin version of > CMake. > > @Arjen: > > Do you still use the Cygwin version of CMake for your Cygwin > tests or is that historical advice no longer relevant so that the > generic Windows version of CMake that you can download for Kitware > gives good results for you? > > 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 > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
