Re: GNU Make on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:38 -0500
> From: "McGovern, Jeff" <address@hidden>
> 
> We are going to be moving from PVCS Builder to GNU Make for our product
> builds.  I have downloaded the make-3.80.tar.gz.  Will this install on a
> Windows machine?

Not necessarily (I think it only builds with MSVC, but not with GCC).
I'd suggest to use a prebuilt binary from MinGW site.  (The next
version of Make will build on Windows with all compilers.)

> If so, could you please provide some info or
> documentation on how this is installed so we may begin using it.

The prebuilt version comes with a Windows-style installer.