System is unknown to cmake, create: Platform/MINGW64_NT-10.0-19044

[SamuelMarks]

Running from MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit with CMake 3.22.1 with gcc 11.2.0 on my fork https://github.com/SamuelMarks/fswatch/tree/multi-os-ci:

# Run from empty build dir:
cmake ..

Error:

System is unknown to cmake, create:
Platform/MINGW64_NT-10.0-19044 to use this system, please post your config file on discourse.cmake.org so it can be added to cmake

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[scholarsmate (Davin)]

I too am having a very similar issue (I think). Here is a bit of the build log where cmake kindly informs me where to go to post about the issue:

System is unknown to cmake, create:

[453](https://github.com/ctc-oss/omega-edit/runs/4889162055?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:453)Platform/MINGW64_NT-10.0-17763 to use this system, please post your config file on discourse.cmake.org so it can be added to cmake

I’m new to the forums and relatively new to cmake. Things started getting complex when I vendor’ed in gRPC (which also uses cmake) as a submodule that I need to link against. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[drankinatty (David C. Rankin)]

If you received the message, then you likely installed the generic “cmake” for gcc instead of the cmake specific to Msys2. For that you need to install “mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake”

[Chih-Chun_Chen]

Thanks David, you saved my day, after install the correct cmake version by

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake

It resolves the problem of ‘System is unknown to cmake’.