-This version of GNU make has been tested on:
+This version of GNU Make has been tested on:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10
It has also been used on Windows 95/98/NT, and on OS/2.
on the compiler command lines to correctly link with Guile. A Windows
port of pkg-config can be found on ezwinports site:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/
The libraries on which Guile depends can vary depending on your
version and build of Guile. At the very least, the Boehm's GC library
them. A precompiled 32-bit Windows build of Guile is available from
the ezwinports site mentioned above.
-The Windows port of GNU make is maintained jointly by various people.
+The Windows port of GNU Make is maintained jointly by various people.
It was originally made by Rob Tulloh.
It is currently maintained by Eli Zaretskii.
Do this first, regardless of the build method you choose:
---------------------------------------------------------
- 1. Edit config.h.W32 to your liking (especially the few shell-related
- defines near the end, or HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS which corresponds
- to './configure --enable-case-insensitive-file-system'). (We don't
- recommend to define HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS, but you may wish to
- consider that if you have a lot of files whose names are in upper
- case, while Makefile rules are written for lower-case versions.)
+ 1. If you have special requirements, edit config.h.W32 to your liking
+ (especially the shell-related defines, or HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS which
+ corresponds to './configure --enable-case-insensitive-file-system'). We
+ don't recommend to define HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS, but you may wish to
+ consider that if you have a lot of files whose names are in upper case,
+ while Makefile rules are written for lower-case versions.
+
+ If you don't have special requirements no changes are needed.
Building with (MinGW-)GCC using build_w32.bat
This produces gnumake.exe in the GccRel directory.
- If you want a version of GNU make built with debugging enabled,
+ If you want a version of GNU Make built with debugging enabled,
add the --debug option. Output goes into the GccDebug directory.
The batch file will probe for Guile installation, and will build
file will probe your system and choose the newest MSVC version it can
find.
- If you want a 32bit version of GNU make, add the --x86 option.
+ If you want a 32bit version of GNU Make, add the --x86 option.
- If you want a Debug build of GNU make, add the --debug option. Output
+ If you want a Debug build of GNU Make, add the --debug option. Output
will go into the .\WinDebug directory.
The batch file will probe for Guile installation, and will build
gnumake.exe with Guile if it finds it. If Guile is installed,
- but you prefer to build GNU make without Guile support, add the
+ but you prefer to build GNU Make without Guile support, add the
--without-guile option.
-Building with (MinGW-)GCC using GNU make
+Building with (MinGW-)GCC using GNU Make
----------------------------------------
- 2. If you already have a version of GNU make available you can use it
+ 2. If you already have a version of GNU Make available you can use it
to build this version. Open a W32 command prompt for your installed
(MinGW-)GCC, setup a correct PATH and other environment variables
for it, then execute ...
make -f Basic.mk TOOLCHAIN=gcc
This produces GccRel\gnumake.exe.
- If you want a version of GNU make built with debugging enabled,
+ If you want a version of GNU Make built with debugging enabled,
add the TARGET_TYPE=debug option:
make -f Basic.mk TOOLCHAIN=gcc TARGET_TYPE=debug
if you want to build with Guile support.
-Building with (MSVC++-)cl using GNU make
+Building with (MSVC++-)cl using GNU Make
----------------------------------------
- 2. If you already have a version of GNU make available you can use it
+ 2. If you already have a version of GNU Make available you can use it
to build this version. Open a W32 command prompt for your installed
(MSVC++-)cl, setup a correct PATH and other environment variables
for it (usually via executing vcvars32.bat or vsvars32.bat from the
make -f Basic.mk
This produces an optimized WinRel/gnumake.exe.
- If you want a version of GNU make built with debugging enabled,
+ If you want a version of GNU Make built with debugging enabled,
add the TARGET_TYPE=debug option:
make -f Basic.mk TARGET_TYPE=debug
3. You will need an installation of Perl. Be sure to use a relatively
modern version: older versions will sometimes throw spurious errors.
- To run the suite after building using GNU make, use:
+ To run the suite after building using GNU Make, use:
make -f Basic.mk check
-- Notes/Caveats --
-------------------
-GNU make on Windows 32-bit platforms:
+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 2000, Windows XP,
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
+ Do not confuse this port of GNU Make with other Windows32 projects
+ which provide a GNU Make binary. These are separate projects
and are not connected to this port effort.
-GNU make and sh.exe:
+GNU Make and 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
There are very few true ports of Bourne shell for NT right now.
There is a version of GNU bash available from Cygnus "Cygwin"
- porting effort (http://www.cygwin.com/).
+ porting effort (https://www.cygwin.com/).
Other possibilities are the MKS version of sh.exe, or building
your own with a package like NutCracker (DataFocus) or Portage
- (Consensys). Also MinGW includes sh (http://mingw.org/).
+ (Consensys). Also MinGW includes sh.
-GNU make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL):
+GNU Make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL):
Some versions of Bourne shell do not behave well when invoked
as 'sh -c' from CreateProcess(). The main problem is they seem
Parallel builds (-jN) are supported in this port. The number of
concurrent processes has a hard limit of 4095.
-GNU make and Cygnus GNU Windows32 tools:
+GNU Make and Cygnus GNU Windows32 tools:
Good news! Make now has native support for Cygwin sh. To enable,
define the HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL in config.h and rebuild make
from scratch. This version of make tested with B20.1 of Cygwin.
Do not define BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL if you use HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL.
-GNU make and the MKS shell:
+GNU Make and the MKS shell:
There is now semi-official support for the MKS shell. To turn this
support on, define HAVE_MKS_SHELL in the config.h.W32 before you
build make. Do not define BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL if you turn
on HAVE_MKS_SHELL.
-GNU make handling of drive letters in pathnames (PATH, vpath, VPATH):
+GNU Make handling of drive letters in pathnames (PATH, vpath, VPATH):
There is a caveat that should be noted with respect to handling
single character pathnames on Windows systems. When colon is
the file with other case permutations will succeed (i.e. opening a
file named "target" or "TARGET" will open the file "Target").
- By default, GNU make retains its case sensitivity when comparing
+ By default, GNU Make retains its case sensitivity when comparing
target names and existing files or directories. It can be
configured, however, into a case preserving and case insensitive
mode by adding a define for HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS to
SUBDIR/DepTarget: SubDir/TARGET
cp $^ $@
- Reliance on this behavior also eliminates the ability of GNU make
+ Reliance on this behavior also eliminates the ability of GNU Make
to use case in comparison of matching rules. For example, it is
not possible to set up a C++ rule using %.C that is different
- than a C rule using %.c. GNU make will consider these to be the
+ than a C rule using %.c. GNU Make will consider these to be the
same rule and will issue a warning.
SAMBA/NTFS/VFAT:
Bug reports:
Please submit bugs via the normal bug reporting mechanism which
- is described in the GNU make manual and the base README.
+ is described in the GNU Make manual and the base README.
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