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Re: MAKE and MinGW32 problems.

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> > It seems that all the GNU Makes that have been compiled for Mingw32 have some
> > dependencies on the cygwin DLL.  I don't know why ?  Maybe it is actually
> > just the cygwin make dressed up in a mingw32 archive ?
> --8<--
> 
> If you're using the JanJaap's build of make then it is not cygwin dependent. 

I can confirm that 8-)

> If you want to be absolutely certain, use a binary editor and search for
> cygwin.

I think "objdump -p your.exe" is a more civilized way to do that.

I know "my" mingw32 make is based on somebody's work to build GNU make
with MSVC. I believe it creates .bat files under some circumstances and
that these don't always do what you might expect.

JanJaap

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GNU mingw32: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32


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