Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Aug 12 17:42:26 PDT 2013


On 8/12/13 4:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:06:37 -0700
> Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Things can be wonky from a vanilla windows command prompt, which is
>>> why I never use any Linux tools there. MSYS makes all those
>>> problems go away. I use git exclusively on windows, but via
>>> gitbash, which is built on top of MSYS.
>>>
>>> Of course, it would be silly to require MSYS or Cygwin to build on
>>> Windows, but there's always CMake. A number of open source projects
>>> use it these days. Ship a configuration file with the source, then
>>> the user can generate Makefiles for a number of compilers and
>>> platforms.
>>
>> I haven't used it recently, but GnuWin32
>> (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) provides good ports of *nix apps
>> without the need for MSYS or Cygwin.
>
> I can second that.

Is is possible from a licensing standpoint to just distribute a copy of 
gmake built by gnuwin?

Andrei




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