make-4.2.1-msvc-build

This repository takes the source code for GNUmake 4.2.1 within the file make-4.2.1.tar.gz from here and adapts the legacy MSVC build to a more modern version of MSVC 14.2.

Instructions to build make-4.2.1-msvc-build

Here are the instructions to build make-4.2.1-msvc-build.

• Clone or get ckormanyos/make-4.2.1-msvc-build.
• Navigate to the MSVC solution file make-4.2.1.sln which is stored here.
• Open make-4.2.1.sln in MSVC 14.2 - i.e., Microsoft(R) VisualStudio(R) 2019 or higher (the Community Edition works also).
• Select Debug/Release as desired in the usual way.
• Leave the solution configuration x64 set in the usual way (since this is actually the only supported solution configuration).
• Rebuild solution and find the executable file make-4.2.1.exe in the standard output path location.

You might want to rename the executable from make-4.2.1.exe file to simply make.exe. The resulting executable file make-4.2.1.exe ( or if manually renamed make.exe) can be used just like you would use regular, traditional make on *nix.

Changes

Minor changes in the source code have been undertaken.

• Disable the famous warning 4996.
• Leave all other warnings unchanged.
• Change the name of one shadowed variable.
• Update the legacy MSVC workspace and adapt its naming.
• Add a solution configuration x64 with settings initially copied from x86 in the usual MSVC way.
• Eliminate the x86 configuration and retain only the 64-bit solution configuration x64.
• Upload build artifact in CI for make-4.2.1-win64-msvc, see also discussion in issue 1.