On 2/23/2012 5:18 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
make commands. One is called MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe and is used
by the "MinGW Makefiles" generator while the other is called
MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/make.exe and is used by the "MSYS Makefiles"
generator. I presume those two executables correspond to various
forks of gmake.
The difference is the c runtime that they use. The MinGW one uses the
Microsoft run time and so understands MS paths (c: and \). The msys one
links to the msys runtime, and understands msys stuff like /c/foo
instead of c:/foo.
Both of these things aside, gmake upstream does look for sh:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ has the following info :
"From v3.77 upwards, make searches for a sh.exe on the path. If it does
not find one, it switches to win32 make mode that is it uses
intermediate batch files for command processing."
So, both versions of gmake are actually the same source code but they
are built with different c run time libraries.
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