Re: make file for Windows nt

[Paul D. Smith]

The FSF doesn't have any prebuilt binaries of its products available for
any platform, UNIX or Windows, available for FTP.  The source is
provided for you to build your own (note you don't need make to build
make; it comes with a batch file you can use).

You can get the source for the current version here:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.79.1.tar.gz

You will need GNU gzip and GNU tar to unpack the distribution.  Then,
follow the directions in the README.W32 to build a Windows32 executable.

There may be places on the 'Net where you can download prebuilt versions
of GNU make, but I don't know where they are.  You might ask Google.

Alternatively, you can purchase prebuilt versions of various GNU
programs for Windows on CD; see here:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/windows.html

However, I think this is out of stock at the moment; check with the FSF
about it.

You may also find prebuilt versions of GNU make packaged with the Cygwin
toolkit; see here:

  http://www.cygwin.com/

Note that the version of GNU make you get from Cygwin is not quite the
same as the one from the FSF; we hope to reconcile the differences in
the near future.

HTH.

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