On 8/12/13 4:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
3. Make doesn't come preinstalled on Windows. But we have a make we can throw in the bin directory without issues. It's only 50K. Nobody goes out of their way - it's there on the same path as dmd. It's always the right version of make to use with our makefiles. We're not going to get into the Python distribution business.
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We did have a problem on FreeBSD because the default make on it would not work with posix.mak. gmake had to be explicitly installed. The only saving grace there is that very few people use FreeBSD, and those that do, tend to be pretty handy with installing gmake.
From these two paragraphs above it seems that distributing a statically-linked version of gmake instead of the current make would be a possible solution. It is bigger but that shouldn't matter.
Then we get to build on all supported OSs with posix.mak. Given that gmake is GNU-licensed, would that be a problem? Andrei
