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by to3m 3054 days ago
https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/blob/master/snmake.exe - standalone build of GNU Make 3.80. Has a couple of hacks in it to better support Windows-style paths with colons in it. I think this came from the SN Systems Playstation2 SDK. Thanks to the GPL, you can have it too.

(I have no idea whether this will successfully run a C compiler for you on Windows, though. I mostly use it to run Makefiles with phony targets as a cross-platform replacement for shell scripts.)
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angelsl 3054 days ago
Oh no, Make 3.80...

Why not build a more recent version? This thing is 15 years old!

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kqr 3053 days ago
This sounds like something one should ask people who do not write portable makefiles, rather than porters of Make, which has been standardised for quite a while now.
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to3m 3053 days ago
They added some useful stuff in subsequent versions... my recollection (though this is going back a while now) is that even only 3.81 was a worthwhile upgrade over 3.80!

However I have better things to do than try to figure out how to build GNUstuff myself on Windows.

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to3m 3054 days ago
Good idea! Let me know when you’ve done it... I could do with an updated copy.
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