Hi Arjen, > I read that section - we should probably elaborate the text a bit: I was > under the > impression that this would give you a complete MinGW environment, but you > do need to get Msys separately. Also the file mingwvars.bat gets overwritten > by the installer - with some syntax that was completely new to me (~dp0 IIRC > to indicate the install directory). Under Msys the c:/mingw/bin syntax > for the > PATH does not work - you need to use /c/mingw/bin.
It gives you a complete MinGW environment if you use the Windows CLI. MinGW provides all necessary libraries and headers and compilers and tools (except make) as windows executables. The compiler itself can be used from this point on, from the Windows CLI or some other IDE (e.g. CodeBlocks). MSYS is a minimal port of useful tools (bash, ls, automake, etc.) to use the MinGW tools within a unix-like environment to be able to use configure. The batch file I wrote was thought to be used within the Windows CLI not MSYS. The meaning of ~dp0 is e.g. explained here ( http://weblogs.asp.net/lorenh/archive/2006/03/24/441004.aspx ), and this is a Windows CLI command. > > Anyway, here is the situation right now: > 1. I have installed the make utility from MinGW/TDM. Renamed > mingw32-make.exe > to make.exe Don't do that, since then you'll get into troubles with MSYS. MSYS provides its own make.exe and if you rename mingw32-make.exe to make.exe strange problems might occur using MSYS. If you're not using MSYS don't mind. CMake looks for mingw32-make.exe. > 2. I have added the MinGW/bin directory to my PATH under Msys > 3. which make gives that particular make.exe, so that seems to be fine > (the compilers > are also available) > 4. CMake however complains that it can not find a proper build utility. If you are using CMake in MSYS it should look for bash.exe and maybe make.exe and gets confused, I don't know exactly. So it may be a problem due to the renaming of mingw32-make.exe. Anyways, if you want to stay with MSYS you don't need to install mingw32-make.exe anyway, so it's best to delete the files from the installation directory or reinstall the compiler tools. > > I will have to investigate this further - CMake worked perfectly under > my old installation. I'll rewrite the wiki to distinguish if the user wants to use MSYS or Windows CLI. If you want to use MinGW in the windows CLI, you have to tell CMake to use the MinGW Makefiles generator, e.g. cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" pathtosource HTH, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
