CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM not found

Question

I have reached the end of my rope with CMake; it has so much potential, but I cannot seem to make it find the basic system tools (i.e. make) in order to functio

Answer 1

Previous answers suggested (re)installing or configuring CMake, they all did not help.

Previously MinGW's compilation of Make used the filename mingw32-make.exe and now it is make.exe. Most suggested ways to configure CMake to use the other file dont work.

Just copy make.exe and rename the copy mingw32-make.exe.

Answer 2

On ubuntu, i think I was missing the compiler. Fixed with:

sudo apt install build-essential

Answer 3

I had the same problem. Installed mingw using the installer provided at http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ . It adds the correct environment variables to path when installing mingw (No need to edit the path variable manually). That did the trick for me.

Answer 4

I had the same problem and specified CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM in a toolchain file, cmake didn't find it. Then I tried adding -D CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=... in the command-line, then it worked. Then I tried changing the generator from "MinGW Makefiles" to "Unix Makefiles" and removed the -D CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM from the command-line, and then it worked also!

So for some reason when the generator is set to "MinGW Makefiles" then the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM setting in the toolchain file is not effective, but for the "Unix Makefiles" generator it is.

Answer 5

It also happens when I just want to compile opencv2.3.2 with mingw32 (in tdm-gcc suites). Often when I install the tdm-gcc, I would like to rename the mingw32-make.exe to make.exe. And I thinks this could be the question. If cmake is asked to generated a MinGW Makefiles, It would try to find ming32-make.exe instead of make.exe. So I copy the make.exe to mingw32-make.exe and reconfigure in Cmake-gui. Finally it works! So I'd like to advise to find whether you have mingw32-make.exe or not to solve this question.

Answer 6

Well, if it is useful, I have had several problems with cmake, including this one. They all disappeared when I fix the global variable (in my case the MinGW Codeblocks) PATH in the system. When the codeblocks install is not in default, and for some unknow reason, this global variable does not point to the right place. Check if the path of Codeblocks or MinGW are correct:

Right click on "My Computer"> Properties> Advanced Properties or Advanced> Environment Variables> to Change the PATH variable

It worked for me;)