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Re: [Mingw-users] Possible problem with mingw32-make-3.81-20080326.tar.gz

On 2008-04-13 00:43Z, Bob wrote:
> Greg Chicares <gchicares@...> writes:
> 
[...add 'C:\msys\1.0\bin' to PATH and invoke 'mingw32-make'...]
>  
>> Instead of doing that, why don't you just use MSYS's own 'make'?
> 
> I had thought that the mingw32 make was the "preferred" binary to use

It seems that there's some confusion, and I figure this is the
right place to ask for authoritative guidance.

I had thought that a makefile that uses any MSYS facility would
best be run with MSYS's 'make' in an MSYS shell--and that you'd
get a native msw binary that way, because producing an MSYS-
dependent binary requires some extra tools and is rarely what
you want unless you're an MSYS developer. However, I see a
different explanation on a gnu 'make' mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2008-04/msg00007.html
[Eli Zaretskii wrote:]
| The MSYS Make is intended for building MSYS.  To build native Windows
| executables, you should use the native build of Make, not an MSYS
| build.

These instructions, OTOH:
  http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mSysFromScratch-MinGW
say to use 'mingw32-make' for building MSYS.

Here
  http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/FAQ
under "What's the difference between make and mingw32-make?"
is another explanation that I'd guess refers to an earlier
version of 'make', because 3.81 builds OOTB and a native build
is fully functional AFAIK.


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