CMake doesn't find windres.exe (MingW), CMAKE_RC_COMPILER

is there any specific reason why CMake doesn't find windres.exe from MingW as the RC compiler? The MingW dir is in my PATH variable, windres.exe does exist.

I always have to set the CMAKE_RC_COMPILER variable by hand to windres.exe in the cmake GUI.

After googling quite a while now, I only found out that more people have this problem, but I never found any real solution...

I have the latest cmake (2.8.5).

Only thing I found was: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=406开发者_C百科8 but the things describes there don't work for me.

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One workaround is to edit the CMakeCache.txt

//RC compiler.
CMAKE_RC_COMPILER:FILEPATH=g:/dev/Rtools/MinGW/bin/windres.exe

(or whatever the path to your MinGW install happens to be)

Then run cmake again

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For MinGW, use cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" source-directory/

If you have MSYS installed, use cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" source-directory/

No plumbing needed.

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Many bug fixes have been merged into CMake related to "windres" since the 2.8.5 release.

Try using CMake 2.8.12 or later: it should work with windres "out of the box" at this point.