Re: Running make on WinXP using cygwin, but struggeling running make in Windows 7 64-bit. Support wanted

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Anderson Fredrik (fa)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:46:23 +0200
> 
> Our build system is using GNU make from a cygwin package running on Windows 
> XP 32-bit clients. Now we are into migrating to Windows 7 mainly 64-bit 
> version.
> So have tried different GNU make versions on Windows 7 computer:
> 
> ·         Cygwin different package setups, both make version 3.79 and 3.82. 
> Think it was 3.82 might be 3.71, but struggled.
> 
> ·         MinGW/msys, make version 3.81, worked best, most of the times the 
> make executed OK. 2 / 83 times our system didn't build making make crash in 
> the middle of execution on a pretty big library.
> 
> ·         GnuWin32, make version 3.81, struggling getting make executing 
> using "$(shell" commands in Makefiles.
> 
> I assume someone has a successful setup, similar to ours, anywhere in the 
> world, we can't be alone. :-)

For questions about the Cygwin build of Make, you will be better off
asking them on the Cygwin mailing list.