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> path normalization and bintools selection issues on windows make was never intended to be a cross-platform tool. If you face problems using it on Windows, th
by Cyph0n 9y ago
> path normalization and bintools selection issues on windows
make was never intended to be a cross-platform tool. If you face problems using it on Windows, then that's on you.
- EdSharkey 9y agoThat is, unless the folks who maintain and champion make want me to use make. It's on them to court me, the cross-platform developer, not the other way around.
- Cyph0n 9y agoAgain, if you're a cross-platform developer, make is not for you. Do you also expect zsh enthusiasts to court Windows devs?
- asveikau 9y agoI kind of disagree, it's quite possible to use gnu make on Windows with msys (though requires some scripting discipline and probably not for everyone). I'm currently doing this for a cross platform c++ project. Same makefile used for Linux, Mac, and windows+msys+cl.exe. (yes, fair amount of extra variables and ifdefs to support the last one...)
- MaulingMonkey 9y agoAll the more reason to use a regular scripting language for building, then, since there are several that are plenty cross-platform.