On Windows, it is strongly advised to use the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/">MinGW
-environment</a> to build SimGrid. Any other compilers are not tests
+environment</a> to build SimGrid, with <a href="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS">
+MSYS tools</a> installed. Any other compilers are not tested
(and thus probably broken). We usually use the
<a href="http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads">activestate</a>
version of Perl, and the
The default configuration should be ok for most usages, but if you
need to change something, there is several ways to do so. First, you
-can use environment variable. For example, you can change the used
+can use environment variables. For example, you can change the used
compilers by issuing these commands before launching cmake:
@verbatim
export CXX=g++-4.4
@endverbatim
+Note that other variables are available, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to add
+options for respectively the C compiler and the C++ compiler.
+
Another way to do so is to use the -D argument of cmake as follows.
Note that the terminating dot is mandatory (see @ref
install_cmake_outsrc to understand its meaning).
make
@endverbatim
-\subsubsection install_cmake_win Cmake on Windows (with MinGW)
+\subsubsection install_cmake_win Cmake on Windows (with MinGW + MSYS)
Cmake can produce several kind of of makefiles. Under Windows, it has
no way of determining what kind you want to use, so you have to hint it:
@verbatim
-cmake -G"MinGW Makefiles" (other options) .
-mingw32-make
+cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" (other options) .
+make
@endverbatim
\subsubsection install_cmake_mac Cmake on Mac OSX
