Dropped support for MSYS Makefiles generator?

When did CMake drop support for the MSYS Makefiles generator?

When I try to build WLA-DX in PVSnesLib, by issuing this command in MINGW32:

# make wla

I get this error:

cd wla-dx ; \
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" . ; \
make wla-65816 ; \
make wla-spc700 ; \
make wlalink ; \

CMake Error: Could not create named generator MSYS Makefiles

Generators
* Unix Makefiles               = Generates standard UNIX makefiles.
  Ninja                        = Generates build.ninja files.
  Ninja Multi-Config           = Generates build-<Config>.ninja files.
  CodeBlocks - Ninja           = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
  CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles  = Generates CodeBlocks project files.
  CodeLite - Ninja             = Generates CodeLite project files.
  CodeLite - Unix Makefiles    = Generates CodeLite project files.
  Eclipse CDT4 - Ninja         = Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
  Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles= Generates Eclipse CDT 4.0 project files.
  Kate - Ninja                 = Generates Kate project files.
  Kate - Unix Makefiles        = Generates Kate project files.
  Sublime Text 2 - Ninja       = Generates Sublime Text 2 project files.
  Sublime Text 2 - Unix Makefiles
                               = Generates Sublime Text 2 project files.

Does anymore remember this generator ever existing?

When I change CMAKE_TYPE in the Makefile so that the invokcation is:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .

instead, I get:

cd wla-dx ; \
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" . ; \
make wla-65816 ; \
make wla-spc700 ; \
make wlalink ; \

System is unknown to cmake, create:
Platform/MINGW32_NT-10.0-22621 to use this system, please post your config file on discourse.cmake.org so it can be added to cmake
Your CMakeCache.txt file was copied to CopyOfCMakeCache.txt. Please post that file on discourse.cmake.org.
-- Found sphinx-build: /usr/bin/sphinx-build
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx
make[1]: Entering directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
[ 16%] Built target gen-65816
[100%] Built target wla-65816
make[1]: Leaving directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
make[1]: Entering directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
[ 14%] Built target gen-spc700
[100%] Built target wla-spc700
make[1]: Leaving directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
make[1]: Entering directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
wlalink/CMakeFiles/wlalink.dir/compiler_depend.make:4: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1032: wlalink/CMakeFiles/wlalink.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1039: wlalink/CMakeFiles/wlalink.dir/rule] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:592: wlalink] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/C/pvsneslib/compiler/wla-dx'
make: *** [Makefile:25: wla] Error 2

and there are “C:” drive letters in the wlalink/CMakeFiles/wlalink.dir/compiler_depend.make file, which MSYS2 does not like. When I try to attach my CopyOfCMakeCache.txt, I get this error:

Sorry, new users can not upload attachments.

Here is my CopyOfCMakeCache.txt:

# This is the CMakeCache file.
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//Value Computed by CMake
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//Flags used by the linker during the creation of shared libraries
// during DEBUG builds.
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CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=FALSE

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I solved my issue by uninstalling CMake and then:

pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-cmake

MinGW CMake is different than Windows CMake and is still different from Cygwin CMake. I suspect you had a Cygwin CMake available in your MSYS environment (given the lack of Visual Studio generators in that list).