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Errr, I actually have to spend 5 minutes googling how to install make on Windows, then getting mingw and hating myself. So no, no it's really not that simple in
by rlabrecque 9y ago
Errr, I actually have to spend 5 minutes googling how to install make on Windows, then getting mingw and hating myself. So no, no it's really not that simple in general.
- to3m 9y agohttps://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/blob/master/snmake.exe https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/blob/master/snmake.exe - standalone build of GNU Make 3.80. Has a couple of hacks in it to better support Windows-style paths with colons in it. I think this came from the SN Systems Playstation2 SDK. Thanks to the GPL, you can have it too. (I have no idea whether this will successfully run a C compiler for you on Windows, though. I mostly use it to run Makefiles with phony targets as a cross-platform replacement for shell scripts.)
- angelsl 9y agoOh no, Make 3.80... Why not build a more recent version? This thing is 15 years old!
- to3m 9y agoGood idea! Let me know when you’ve done it... I could do with an updated copy.
- kqr 9y agoThis sounds like something one should ask people who do not write portable makefiles, rather than porters of Make, which has been standardised for quite a while now.
- to3m 9y agoThey added some useful stuff in subsequent versions... my recollection (though this is going back a while now) is that even only 3.81 was a worthwhile upgrade over 3.80! However I have better things to do than try to figure out how to build GNUstuff myself on Windows.
- dTal 9y agoNot really fair to blame make for your daft OS.