Re: Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code ‏

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Brown" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>,
>       <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:56:10 -0800
> 
> I showed some of the output when this new windows/dos make is run
> from the command prompt, in the original message.

Sorry, I thought that was from the Cygwin shell, since you asked
whether this Make is supposed to work with Cygwin.

> Why not just post a step by step description of how to compile
> make  in Windows 7 64, post some output of its operation,
> and clear everything up ?

I don't know how to build it with MSVC, sorry.  I use MinGW port of
GCC.

You could try using the build_w32.bat batch file.  But I think your
build is OK, it's something else that causes the problem.

> Also, can you describe what the series of failed process_begin's indicates ?
> Are they emanating from inside the make code or from executables invoked by 
> make ?

These messages come from Make, and they tell that Make failed to
invoke some program that the Makefile instructed it to.

> ===================================================
> 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_gener
> make:
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, pwd, ...) failed.
> make:
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, basename "", ...) failed.
> make:
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, pwd, ...) failed.
> make:
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, basename "", ...) failed.

Do you have uname.exe, cygpath.exe, pwd.exe, and basename.exe
somewhere on your PATH?  If not, that's the reason for those failures:
Make looks for these programs, but cannot find them.

If that doesn't help, please show the Makefile you are trying to use
and the full error messages by Make when you run it.