And for the record, the OP had no intention of building for Cygwin, at least as described. The mention of Cygwin arises only because of the error messages e.g.
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, cygpath C:\zzz_13.12.1_general\tools, ...) failed. David On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: >> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> >> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org >> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:44:12 -0500 >> >> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 19:37 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > > On Windows, GNU make can be compiled in a quite a number of different >> > > ways. It would be helpful if you gave us an idea of which method you >> > > used. >> > >> > He said that: he used Microsoft Visual C++ version 2005. >> >> But I meant, how? Through the Visual Studio project files? Or via the >> build_w32.bat script? Maybe that doesn't matter; I'm definitely no >> expert on this :-). > > You are right: it might matter. Sorry for my misunderstanding. > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make