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Re: S2M , Nicolas gabriel -> Need information to use make on a Win32 pla


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: S2M , Nicolas gabriel -> Need information to use make on a Win32 plateform.
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:11:08 -0500

%% Johan Bezem <address@hidden> writes:

  jb> if you use cygwin, start the cygwin setup.exe, and in the category
  jb> for development make sure to select the make-package. That will
  jb> install the executable, to be called with 'make' from the regular
  jb> (bash?) prompt in Cygwin. In this case you do not need to build
  jb> 'make' yourself from the sources (although you can, if you
  jb> want...).

Please be aware that the version of GNU make that comes with cygwin is
not the same version that is provided by the FSF; there have been
modifications to the cygwin version.  If you have Windows-specific
problems with the cygwin version you should ask on the cygwin lists
first.

Good luck!

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