Re: win32 compilation of make 4.0 source code‏

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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 ?

I don't know, sorry.  But Cygwin distributes their own build of Make;
why won't you use that instead?

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.