[cdt-dev] builder and MinGW

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to use CDT with MinGW for the first time and am having some
trouble. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or this is just indicative
of a bad out-of-the box experience for our MinGW users. The problems I'm
experiencing are with a C project I created using the wizard, having
chosen MinGW as the toolchain.

For starters, mingw's make is called mingw32-make. When I build the
project, the builder assumes 'make' is available. So, I hit that wall
right out of the gate. I can get passed this by renaming the mingw make
program to 'make'. Are we expecting users to take this manual step?

Now the project builds but I get these warnings in the console

****  WARNING: The "Debug" Configuration may not
build  ****
****  because it uses the "Cygwin GCC"  ****
****  tool-chain that is unsupported on this system. 
****

The used tools (as showing in the Tool Chain Editor properties page)
are:

GCC Assembler
GCC Archiver
GCC C++ Compiler
GCC C Compiler
MinGW C Linker
MinGW C++ Linker

Note that I have not tweaked the wizard generated project. Also, I get
the same behavior whether I use Gnu Make Builder or CDT
Internal Builder.

Can someone enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong or why our MinGW
support is quirky?

John