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diff --git a/README.W32.template b/README.W32.template index ef68d61..6175dde 100644 --- a/README.W32.template +++ b/README.W32.template @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ This version of GNU make has been tested on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003. It has also been used on Windows 95/98/NT, and on OS/2. -It builds natively with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 2003 as well as -.NET 7.x and .NET 2003. +It builds with the MinGW port of GCC (tested with GCC 3.4.2). -It builds with the MinGW port of GCC 3.x (tested with GCC 3.4.2). +It also builds with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 2003 as well as +with .NET 7.x and .NET 2003. The Windows 32-bit port of GNU make is maintained jointly by various people. It was originally made by Rob Tulloh. @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ Using make_msvc_net2003.vcproj ------------------------------ 2. Open make_msvc_net2003.vcproj in MSVS71 or MSVC71 or any compatible IDE, - then build this project as usual. + then build this project as usual. There's also a solution file for + Studio 2003. Building with (MinGW-)GCC using build_w32.bat @@ -68,10 +69,12 @@ Building with (MSVC++-)cl using build_w32.bat or NMakefile GNU make on Windows 32-bit platforms: This version of make is ported natively to Windows32 platforms - (Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, and Windows 98). It - does not rely on any 3rd party software or add-on packages for - building. The only thing needed is a version of Visual C++, - which is the predominant compiler used on Windows32 platforms. + (Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, + Windows 95, and Windows 98). It does not rely on any 3rd party + software or add-on packages for building. The only thing + needed is a Windows compiler. Two compilers supported + officially are the MinGW port of GNU GCC, and the various + versions of the Microsoft C compiler. Do not confuse this port of GNU make with other Windows32 projects which provide a GNU make binary. These are separate projects @@ -79,11 +82,11 @@ GNU make on Windows 32-bit platforms: GNU make and sh.exe: - This port prefers you have a working sh.exe somewhere on your - system. If you don't have sh.exe, the port falls back to - MSDOS mode for launching programs (via a batch file). - The MSDOS mode style execution has not been tested that - carefully though (The author uses GNU bash as sh.exe). + This port prefers if you have a working sh.exe somewhere on + your system. If you don't have sh.exe, the port falls back to + MSDOS mode for launching programs (via a batch file). The + MSDOS mode style execution has not been tested that carefully + though (The author uses GNU bash as sh.exe). There are very few true ports of Bourne shell for NT right now. There is a version of GNU bash available from Cygnus "Cygwin" @@ -108,9 +111,25 @@ GNU make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL): A native Windows32 system with no Bourne shell will also run in batch mode. All command lines will be put into batch files - and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%). Note that parallel - builds (-j) require a working Bourne shell; they will not work - with COM. + and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%). However, parallel + builds ARE supported with Windows shells (cmd.exe and + command.com). See the next section about some peculiarities + of parallel builds on Windows. + +Support for parallel builds + + Parallel builds (-jN) are supported in this port, with 2 + limitations: + + - The number of concurrent processes has a hard limit of 64, + due to the way this port implements waiting for its + subprocesses; + + - The job server method (available when Make runs on Posix + platforms) is not supported, which means you must pass an + explicit -jN switch to sub-Make's in a recursive Makefile. + If a sub-Make does not receive an explicit -jN switch, it + will default to -j1, i.e. no parallelism in sub-Make's. GNU make and Cygnus GNU Windows32 tools: @@ -171,29 +190,11 @@ GNU make test suite: on Windows NT). All tests pass in an environment that includes sh.exe. Tests were performed on both Windows NT and Windows 95. -Building GNU make on Windows NT and Windows 95/98 with Microsoft Visual C: - - I did not provide a Visual C project file with this port as - the project file would not be considered freely distributable - (or so I think). It is easy enough to create one, though, if - you know how to use Visual C. - - I build the program statically to avoid problems locating DLL's - on machines that may not have MSVC runtime installed. If you - prefer, you can change make to build with shared libraries by - changing /MT to /MD in the NMakefile (or in build_w32.bat). - - The program has not been built for non-Intel architectures (yet). - - I have not tried to build with any other compilers than MSVC. I - have heard that this is possible though so don't be afraid to - notify me of your successes! - Pathnames and white space: Unlike Unix, Windows 95/NT systems encourage pathnames which contain white space (e.g. C:\Program Files\). These sorts of - pathnames are legal under Unix too, but are never encouraged. + pathnames are valid on Unix too, but are never encouraged. There is at least one place in make (VPATH/vpath handling) where paths containing white space will simply not work. There may be others too. I chose to not try and port make in such a way so @@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ Bug reports: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, -2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Make. GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the |