Compiling for MinGW on win7

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pawelk010 wrote on Saturday, July 12, 2014:

Hi,
Coming back to some light programming I see a new version of GLFW. Cool.

I’m trying to compile for MinGW on win7.

Following the new “Compiling GLFW” guide I downloaded and installed cmake…

Output of cmake is:

The C compiler identification is GNU 4.8.1
Check for working C compiler: P:/mingw32/bin/gcc.exe
Check for working C compiler: P:/mingw32/bin/gcc.exe – works
Detecting C compiler ABI info
Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
Found OpenGL: opengl32
Looking for include file pthread.h
Looking for include file pthread.h - found
Looking for pthread_create
Looking for pthread_create - not found
Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
Looking for pthread_create in pthread
Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
Found Threads: TRUE
Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
Using Win32 for window creation
Using WGL for context creation
Configuring done
Generating done

Apart from the threading and the doxygen stuff, it seems to have worked but I don’t see any linkable library files anywhere.

When previously (successfully) compiling 2.7.7 there was, quoting from the docs: “… libglfw.a (the static link version of GLFW), glfw.dll (the DLL version of GLFW) and libglfwdll.a (the DLL import library).”

I don’t see any .a or .dll files in the “build” directory that I created for this process. I don’t see any executables for the examples or tests, either.

Top level contents of the build folder is:

Folders:
CMakeFiles
docs
examples
src
tests

Files:
CMakeCache.txt
cmake_install.cmake
cmake_uninstall.cmake
Makefile

Mostly just a lot of .cmake and .make files in those folders.

I’d love some help.

Thanks.
Pawel.

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pawelk010 wrote on Sunday, July 13, 2014:

Hi.
Cmake doesn’t compile. I still needed to run mingw-make. I’m clearly giving away how green I am but I think if the doc is titled “Compiling GLFW” it should suggest what’s needed to… compile GLFW. :slight_smile:

I was looking at the SFML docs when I realised my mistake:
http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.1/compile-with-cmake.php

I now have the .a file, and the examples and tests have compiled.

Onwards and upwards…