Re: Need GNU Make which runs on Windows 2000 help !

[Earnie Boyd]

address@hidden wrote:
> In a message dated 12/8/2003 5:41:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> address@hidden writes:
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> > Earnie
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> Earnie:
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> Thank you for taking the trouble to respond.  I had stumbled across 
> cygwin through download.com, which contains a make which seems also to 
> be working fine.

Note that the result will most likely be dependent on the cygwin1.dll 
runtime.  You will need to distribute the cygwin1.dll and the source for 
that version with your code.  If you wish a proprietary license for your 
code, then you don't want to use have your result dependent on the 
cygwin1.dll runtime.  If you use an Open Source license for your code, 
then an exception which inoculates your code from the GPL viral license, 
however, you will still need to distribute the cygwin1.dll code if you 
distribute the cygwin1.dll runtime.

If you like the unix style environment but do not wish to have a 
dependency on a GPL licensed DLL then check out www.mingw.org and it's 
MSYS distribution.  It will use the MinGW GCC version which creates 
results dependent on the MSVCRT.DLL which exists on all versions of 
Win32 except the first unaltered version of Win95.

Earnie.
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