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Remove obsolete text about non-support for -jN without Unixy shell.

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Remove obsolete text about not supplying Visual Studio project files
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Modify text to prefer GCC builds to MSC builds.
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This version of GNU make has been tested on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003.
It has also been used on Windows 95/98/NT, and on OS/2.
It builds natively with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 2003 as well as
.NET 7.x and .NET 2003.
It builds with the MinGW port of GCC (tested with GCC 3.4.2).
It builds with the MinGW port of GCC 3.x (tested with GCC 3.4.2).
It also builds with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 2003 as well as
with .NET 7.x and .NET 2003.
The Windows 32-bit port of GNU make is maintained jointly by various
people. It was originally made by Rob Tulloh.
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------------------------------
2. Open make_msvc_net2003.vcproj in MSVS71 or MSVC71 or any compatible IDE,
then build this project as usual.
then build this project as usual. There's also a solution file for
Studio 2003.
Building with (MinGW-)GCC using build_w32.bat
@ -68,10 +69,12 @@ Building with (MSVC++-)cl using build_w32.bat or NMakefile
GNU make on Windows 32-bit platforms:
This version of make is ported natively to Windows32 platforms
(Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, and Windows 98). It
does not rely on any 3rd party software or add-on packages for
building. The only thing needed is a version of Visual C++,
which is the predominant compiler used on Windows32 platforms.
(Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows 95, and Windows 98). It does not rely on any 3rd party
software or add-on packages for building. The only thing
needed is a Windows compiler. Two compilers supported
officially are the MinGW port of GNU GCC, and the various
versions of the Microsoft C compiler.
Do not confuse this port of GNU make with other Windows32 projects
which provide a GNU make binary. These are separate projects
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GNU make and sh.exe:
This port prefers you have a working sh.exe somewhere on your
system. If you don't have sh.exe, the port falls back to
MSDOS mode for launching programs (via a batch file).
The MSDOS mode style execution has not been tested that
carefully though (The author uses GNU bash as sh.exe).
This port prefers if you have a working sh.exe somewhere on
your system. If you don't have sh.exe, the port falls back to
MSDOS mode for launching programs (via a batch file). The
MSDOS mode style execution has not been tested that carefully
though (The author uses GNU bash as sh.exe).
There are very few true ports of Bourne shell for NT right now.
There is a version of GNU bash available from Cygnus "Cygwin"
@ -108,9 +111,25 @@ GNU make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL):
A native Windows32 system with no Bourne shell will also run
in batch mode. All command lines will be put into batch files
and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%). Note that parallel
builds (-j) require a working Bourne shell; they will not work
with COM.
and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%). However, parallel
builds ARE supported with Windows shells (cmd.exe and
command.com). See the next section about some peculiarities
of parallel builds on Windows.
Support for parallel builds
Parallel builds (-jN) are supported in this port, with 2
limitations:
- The number of concurrent processes has a hard limit of 64,
due to the way this port implements waiting for its
subprocesses;
- The job server method (available when Make runs on Posix
platforms) is not supported, which means you must pass an
explicit -jN switch to sub-Make's in a recursive Makefile.
If a sub-Make does not receive an explicit -jN switch, it
will default to -j1, i.e. no parallelism in sub-Make's.
GNU make and Cygnus GNU Windows32 tools:
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on Windows NT). All tests pass in an environment that includes
sh.exe. Tests were performed on both Windows NT and Windows 95.
Building GNU make on Windows NT and Windows 95/98 with Microsoft Visual C:
I did not provide a Visual C project file with this port as
the project file would not be considered freely distributable
(or so I think). It is easy enough to create one, though, if
you know how to use Visual C.
I build the program statically to avoid problems locating DLL's
on machines that may not have MSVC runtime installed. If you
prefer, you can change make to build with shared libraries by
changing /MT to /MD in the NMakefile (or in build_w32.bat).
The program has not been built for non-Intel architectures (yet).
I have not tried to build with any other compilers than MSVC. I
have heard that this is possible though so don't be afraid to
notify me of your successes!
Pathnames and white space:
Unlike Unix, Windows 95/NT systems encourage pathnames which
contain white space (e.g. C:\Program Files\). These sorts of
pathnames are legal under Unix too, but are never encouraged.
pathnames are valid on Unix too, but are never encouraged.
There is at least one place in make (VPATH/vpath handling) where
paths containing white space will simply not work. There may be
others too. I chose to not try and port make in such a way so
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Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Make.
GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the