Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code‏

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:47:54 -0500
> 
> 
> 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.

He said that: he used Microsoft Visual C++ version 2005.