https://github.com/ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build

GNUmake 4.2.1 built with MSVC for use on Windows
https://github.com/ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build

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GNUmake 4.2.1 built with MSVC for use on Windows

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build
• Owner: ckormanyos
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-10-31T15:22:14.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-31T06:03:32.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-28T03:19:38.248Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: gnumake, msvc
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.81 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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This repository takes the source code for GNUmake 4.2.1

within the file `make-4.2.1.tar.gz`

from [here](https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/)

and adapts the legacy MSVC build to a more modern version of MSVC 14.2.

# Instructions to build make-4.2.1-msvc-build

Here are the instructions to build make-4.2.1-msvc-build.

  - Clone or get [ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build](https://github.com/ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build).

  - Navigate to the MSVC solution file `make-4.2.1.sln` which is [stored here](./make-4.2.1/).

  - Open `make-4.2.1.sln` in MSVC 14.2 - i.e., Microsoft(R) VisualStudio(R) 2019 or higher (the Community Edition works also).

  - Select Debug/Release as desired in the usual way.

  - Leave the solution configuration `x64` set in the usual way (since this is actually the only supported solution configuration).

  - Rebuild solution and find the executable file `make-4.2.1.exe` in the standard output path location.

You might want to rename the executable from `make-4.2.1.exe` file to simply `make.exe`.

The resulting executable file `make-4.2.1.exe` ( or if manually renamed `make.exe`)

can be used just like you would use regular, traditional `make` on `*nix`.

# Changes

Minor changes in the source code have been undertaken.

  - Disable the famous warning 4996.

  - Leave all other warnings unchanged.

  - Change the name of one _shadowed_ variable.

  - Update the legacy MSVC workspace and adapt its naming.

  - Add a solution configuration `x64` with settings initially copied from `x86` in the usual _MSVC_ way.

  - Eliminate the `x86` configuration and retain only the 64-bit solution configuration `x64`.

  - Upload build artifact in CI for `make-4.2.1-win64-msvc`, see also discussion in [issue 1](https://github.com/ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build/issues/1).