Re: Static Pattern Rules: target, stem, and prerequisite issue

[Greg Chicares]

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On 2006-7-7 8:51 UTC, Martin Gaarde Lund wrote:
> On 7/7/06, *Paul D. Smith* <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Look at the README.W32 file for info on building on Windows systems.
> 
> Actually I did and it states that MSVC++ is required in order to produce
> w32 output. I dont have MSVC++.
[...]
> Hopefully someone in make-w32 can provide me a binary. Otherwise I will
> have to get MSVC++.

You need no non-free tools: you can certainly build make-3.81 by
downloading MSYS and MinGW gcc, both from mingw.org, and running
  ./configure && make
It might be much easier, though, to use this prebuilt binary, also
from mingw.org:
  http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=583683
  "a new version of make using the GNU make 3.81 sources"