bmake for Windows

NOTE:

This project is no longer being maintained.

Installing

bmake is now on chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/bmake

Building

You can build this by running bmake

Notable Changes

• Arguments can be supplied with either - or /

• .MAKE.PPID, .MAKE.UID and .MAKE.GID are all set to -1

• Milliseconds used instead of microseconds in trace records

• VPATH is delimited with ; instead of :

• By default, bmake only searches for sys.mk in ./mk (if neither MAKESYSPATH or -m are used)

• The .SHELL target uses different sources:

  name: This is the minimal specification, used to select one of the built-in shell specs; cmd and pwsh.

  path: Specifies the absolute path to the shell.

  echo: Template to echo a command.

  ignore: Template to execute a command without error checking.

  check: Template to execute a command with error checking.

  args: Arguments to be passed to the shell, this should always end with the 'exec' flag (/c).

  meta: A list of characters that are treated specially by the shell.

  special: Characters that need to be escaped in a special way, multiple characters can be added in a comma separated list. e.g a,!a,b,^b, means that 'a' can be escaped using '!a' and 'b' can be escaped using '^b'. The delimiter can be anything.

  separator: Character used by the shell to "concatenate" commands, allowing multiple commands on one line.

  escape: Character used by the shell to escape characters.

  comment: Character used by the shell for comments.

NOTE: Template here means a printf style format string.

Example:

.SHELL: name=cmd.exe path=C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe \
echo="echo %s" ignore="%s" check="%s||exit" separator=& \
meta=\n%&<>^| escape=^ special=\n,&echo:, args=/c

Status

The binary itself is functional and can be used as expected. Some of the mk files have been ported, though some functionality is missing, most notabaly: there is no install target and no support for manpages.

Up to date with bmake 20240625