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Re: Build errors on Windows 10

 

You probably started the msys2 environment shell. You need to start
the mingw shell environment.

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 14:37, Pradeepa Senanayake
<pradeepa.kck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I tried to build the KiCad source in Windows 10 MSYS2 environment using the steps available in the http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html location.
>
> However, the build fails with the following error.
>
> CMake Error: Could not create named generator MSYS Makefiles
>
> Generators
> * Unix Makefiles               = Generates standard UNIX makefiles.
>   Ninja                        = Generates build.ninja files.
>   CodeBlocks - Ninja           = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
>   CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles  = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
>   CodeLite - Ninja             = Generates CodeLite project files.
>   CodeLite - Unix Makefiles    = Generates CodeLite project files.
>   Sublime Text 2 - Ninja       = Generates Sublime Text 2 project files.
>   Sublime Text 2 - Unix Makefiles
>                                = Generates Sublime Text 2 project files.
>   Kate - Ninja                 = Generates Kate project files.
>   Kate - Unix Makefiles        = Generates Kate project files.
>   Eclipse CDT4 - Ninja         = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
>   Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles= Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
>
> Is this a known error?
>
> Thanks!
> Best Regards,
> Pradeepa Senanayake.
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