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[Clifford Neal Simon <csimon@xxxxxxx>]

Nick,
Solved - thank you.


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:55 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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