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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mm, normally you should use the mingw env in msys2, from your prompt it
appears you use the msys env.

Normally I would expect all psths it uses for binsries to be unic like,
that is /c instead of c:/

ons. 19. maj 2021 02.55 skrev Clifford Neal Simon <csimon@xxxxxxx>:

> Hi devs,
>
> I'm doing my first build from source, using msys2 on windows.
> I (shallow) cloned the main repository.
> I downloaded the tools and dependencies using pacman, according to here:
> https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/build/windows-msys2/
> Now I should be able to run cmake, but cmake fails.
>
> User@Programming MSYS ~/kicad/build/release
> $ /mingw64/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
>               -G "MSYS Makefiles" \
>                   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/mingw64 \
>         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64 \
>         -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/mingw64 \
>         ../../
> -- The C compiler identification is unknown
> -- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - failed
> -- Check for working C compiler: C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe
> -- Check for working C compiler: C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe - broken
> CMake Error at
> C:/msys64/mingw64/share/cmake-3.20/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:66
> (message):
>   The C compiler
>
>     "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe"
>
>   is not able to compile a simple test program.
>
> I looked at CMakeError.log. From what I can tell from there, it seems to
> be trying to compile "CMakeCCompilerId.c" with gcc but it passed the flags
> --target=arm-arm-none-eabi;-mcpu=cortex-m3 to gcc and gcc does not
> understand those flags. Those flags are very strange. I did not ask to
> cross-compile, and of course I would not expect for a cross-compilation to
> work. Have I missed a step?
>
> -Clifford
>
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