gnumake-windows

Instructions for building Gnu Make as a native windows application

All patches under the same license as sources of Gnu Make: GPLv3 or later

Author of the patches: Michael M. Builov (mbuilov@gmail.com)

Fixed Windows-specific bugs:

• detect too small or empty source Makefile
• don't hang on Ctrl-C

Other fixes:

• fix for inconsistency with fake function arguments, see http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49841
• ability to enable/disable warnings about use of undefined numeric variables (function arguments)
• optimizations for Gnu Make functions: expand, sort, filter, error
• support for ANSI color escape sequences in Windows console
• build fix for old Visual Studios

Instructions for building native gnumake.exe for Windows:

make-4.3-build.txt

Pre-built executables:

• gnumake-4.3.exe - gnu make 4.3 built for windowsXP/x86
• gnumake-4.3-x64.exe - gnu make 4.3 built for windows7/x64

Variants for makefile writers

1. added warnings about use of environment variables
2. extra warnings about use of undefined variables
3. run with implicitly added -rR --warn-undefined-variables switches

• gnumake-4.3-dev.exe - gnu make 4.3 built for windowsXP/x86 (development version)
• gnumake-4.3-dev-x64.exe - gnu make 4.3 built for windows7/x64 (development version)