Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Sender: brendan AT edison DOT dialix DOT com DOT au Message-ID: <37113EFB.FE9DD802@dgs.monash.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:31:56 +0000 From: Brendan Simon Reply-To: brendan AT dgs DOT monash DOT edu DOT au Organization: CTAM Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: CygWin32 Subject: Re: MAKE and MinGW32 problems. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mumit Khan wrote: > Make will try to find a /bin/sh, and use it if found in your PATH. I have C:\BIN in my path but there is no sh or sh.exe > I didn't even know I had a make on my site. Just for kicks, could you try > out any mingw make, from say Jan-Jaaps (URL below) site, and see if it > still causes the problem? Also, you may want to remove /bin from your > PATH and see if that does anything. ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/ports/ > fyi, I'm now more in favor of using Cygwin tools to build both Cygwin > and Mingw binaries/executables (using -mno-cygwin) to avoid these > hassles. With b20.1 being quite stable on NT, and reasonably stable > on W9x using the 1999-01-16 snapshot on Cygnus site, it's looking > better and better. > > My personal preference is to use a Linux box and cross-compile ... I too prefer Linux and GNU tools. Most of my colleagues do not use UNIX (or never have) and we are using cross-compilers & debuggers for embedded systems that are hosted on MS-Windows platforms (ie. -mno-cygwin wont solve my problems as we are not building MS-Windows executables). I just wanted to get an up to date version of Make (we were using an old MKS version for 16 bit DOS). I don't really want to get the my co-workers to install Cygwin just to get Make working. I do think that the Cygwin environment is very good. It gives developers the power of the UNIX environment (well closer to it). I am introducing so many new things to them that come from the UNIX/Linux/GNU world that I will only confuse them further. In the long term I think introducing Cygwin in our development environment will be a good thing (introducing Linux would be even better). I only hope that Cygwincontinues to improve in the speed department as that is the main reason I prefer using Mingw built tools. Thanks, Brendan Simon. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com