Configure fails with MinGW on path / GNU compilers chosen before cl.exe

[l0calh05t]

Steps to reproduce:

• Install MinGW
• Add the MinGW binary directory to the path
• Open a VS command prompt
• Run cmake to configure a project

Stderr:

CMake Error at Y:/development/cmake-fastbuild-inbilla-install/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake:141 (enable_language):
  No CMAKE_RC_COMPILER could be found.

  Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
  variable "RC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_RC_COMPILER to the full path
  to the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  Y:/development/cmake-fastbuild-inbilla-install/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU-C.cmake:2 (__windows_compiler_gnu)
  Y:/development/cmake-fastbuild-inbilla-install/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/CMakeCInformation.cmake:56 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:2 (project)

[inbilla]

Not sure about MinGW - I don't know if it has an RC compiler configured for Cmake.
Does this work with other generators? I suspect it doesn't and is an issue with CMake MinGW support itself

[l0calh05t]

It has an RC compiler. Which is detected when using MinGW Makefiles and IIRC also Ninja.

On 07.03.2016, at 07:33, Joshua Green [email protected] wrote:

Not sure about MinGW - I don't know if it has an RC compiler configured for Cmake.
Does this work with other generators? I suspect it doesn't and is an issue with CMake MinGW support itself

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