Re: [Mingw-users] ingw32-make 3.80 does not accept any command line argument

[Bo Y. <tec...@gm...>]

Greg Chicares :
> On 2007-11-15 02:24Z, Bo Yang wrote:
>   
>>    I am trying to build Mozilla Firefox source code with MinGW. I used 
>> Msys 1.0 and with this packages there are ming32-make 3.81. But Mozilla 
>> source require make 3.80 instead. So, I download the binary on sf.net. 
>> When I invoke the mingw32-make 3.80 on windows command window, it works 
>> well. But when I invoke it on the Msys shell, it did not accept any 
>> command line arguments.
>>     
>
> 'mingw32-make' is a native msw build. MSYS has its own
> distinct 'make' package; probably you want to find the
> right version of that.
>   
Ah, I am sorry, but what is the difference between mingw32-make and msys 
make? I can't understand. Does not msys's make a windows native build?
> Though I can't guess why 3.80 would be preferred: 3.81
> is generally more reliable. Perhaps the mozilla people
> were thinking of Cygwin's 'make' instead of MSYS's?
>   
Yeah, they refer cygwin make 3.80 very often. But again, what is the 
difference between cygwin's make and mingw's make and msys's make? Could 
you please explain some for me? Thanks!

Regards!
Bo