Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code‏

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 18:21 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Mark Brown" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:04:24 -0800
> > 
> > I was able to compile the make 4.0 source code downloaded from the
> > gnu make site using Visual C++ 2005 under Windows 7 64 (generated 0 errors, 
> > 259 warnings)
> > but executing the resulting make command file from the Windows 7 DOS 
> > Command Prompt
> > yields a series of warnings/errors:
> > 
> > ======================================================
> > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, uname, ...) failed.
> > make:
> > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, uname -a, ...) failed.
> > make:
> > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, cygpath C:\zzz_13.12.1_general\tools, 
> > ...) failed.
> > make:
> > process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, pwd, ...) failed.
> > ======================================================
> > 
> > Is the resulting file supposed to executed under Cygwin ?

>From what I can see, you're not using Cygwin at all either to build or
to run GNU make, so there's no need to consider that.

On Windows, GNU make can be compiled in a quite a number of different
ways.  It would be helpful if you gave us an idea of which method you
used.  But it doesn't seem like there's any need to worry about Cygwin.

> In any case, the released version of Make 4.0 had a few bugs, so you
> may wish to try building the current development code.

This is true; I want to get a followup release out sooner rather than
later but it will still be a little while yet.