Bug 509940

Are you sure you have the package mingw32-SDL installed?

mingw32-sdl is installed.  Here is part of rpm -qi mingw32-SDL.

Name        : mingw32-SDL                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.2.13                            Vendor: Fedora Project

If you look at FindSDL.cmake, you will see the FIND_PATH for SDL.h.  It is search a bunch of paths but nothing that can be found from the root path /usr/i686-pc-mingw32.  The cmake mailing list suggested adding /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw to the root path but the FIND_PATH in FindSDL.cmake isn't looking in /include/SDL so it still doesn't find it.  It was mentioned that the FindSDL.cmake is using an old way to look for the appropriate include files.  Not sure what the current suggested practice is.

You should use FindPkgConfig.cmake.  However, you will hit bugs 513924 and 513925.

Actually, I'd bet that cmake does not look for i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config (only pkg-config), so even fixing 513925 would not help you; you would have to hack something to use cross-compilation search paths (as hinted in bug 513925).  Call it the revenge of the autotools. ;-)

(In reply to comment #3)
> Actually, I'd bet that cmake does not look for i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config (only
> pkg-config), so even fixing 513925 would not help you; you would have to hack
> something to use cross-compilation search paths (as hinted in bug 513925). 
> Call it the revenge of the autotools. ;-)  

No, cmake works perfectly well.  We build several packages using
cmake just fine.

Maybe using mingw32-cmake?  Erik mentioned it but I didn't find it in my installation.

As I wrote extensively in 513925, the need for special commands instead of "./configure --host=... && make" (or the cmake equivalent) is always the sign of a bug (either in the program's build system, or in Fedora).

mingw32-cmake is only available in mingw32-filesystem-51-1.fc12 (or higher) so only rawhide

I really have no clue about this.  Have you asked on the cmake mailing list?  

I'm going to close this for now, feel free to reopen if you feel Fedora needs to make a distribution specific change to cmake.

Installed fedora 12 in virtual-machine.  Installed mingw32 files including mingw32-SDL and mingw32-filesystem.  My original test still failed.  Ran "mingw32-cmake ." which also failed.

-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-g++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - 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
CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
SDL_INCLUDE_DIR
   used as include directory in directory /home/dulsi/test

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I did ask on the cmake list back when I reported this bug.  They pointed me to the FindSDL cmake rules which explained why it would work.  It would never look in the appropriate directory.  I had hoped mingw32-cmake was built in a way that allowed it to work but it appears to not be the case.

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The problem exists in Fedora 12.  Haven't had a chance to test Fedora 13 yet.

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