Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

[Yongwei Wu]

On 01/10/2007, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:28:02 +0800
> > From: "Yongwei Wu" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > I was really guessing my modification might not be right.  However, I
> > do not know how to build Make from CVS, and have not found
> > documentation.
> >
> > Any simple guidelines?  I have access to Cygwin, native MinGW, and
> > MSVC (7.1).
>
> With Cygwin, the same guidelines as for Posix (Unix and GNU/Linux)
> systems should work (see README.cvs).  However, the result will be a
> Cygwin build of Make, not a native Windows port.  The Cygwin build is
> recommended for use only with Cygwin tools, and MinGW/MSVC build is
> recommended for use only with native Windows development tools.

(Slapping myself) sorry for my folly.  With your information I
successfully built Make under Cygwin:

autoreconf -i
./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 CC='gcc -mno-cygwin'
cd w32 && make && cd ..
make make.exe

(I may not have enough tools installed to make from the root
directory.)

> With MinGW and MSVC, running build_w32.bat should work if you add the
> line that produces config.h from config.h.W32.template.  But make sure
> you edit template strings such as %VERSION% into something suitable
> before you run the compiler.

I saw now the way my copying config.h.W32.template to config.h was not
correct.  Do I have to manually replace %PACKAGE% and %VERSION%?  Is
there an easy way?

Best regards,

Yongwei

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