There is a attempt to drop support for the deprecated dependency generator , see https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2373. The issue is addressed by the following projects https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:cmake-fixes https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win64:cmake-fixes