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Compiling C::B with Make under windows?

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pjk:
I have compared the files in extra.zip from ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/ports/mingw32/ with the binaries in UnxUtils.zip from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. The bison.exe, flex.exe, gunzip.exe and gzip.exe are identical but make.exe, mkdir.exe, mv.exe, rm.exe are all different. mkdir.exe is much newer with a file date stamp of 2002. So clearly the UnxUtils sources would not be adequate to comply with the GNU licence.

It took until today for me to realise the name Julian Smart which appears in extra.txt is the name of the original developer of wxwidgets. I have no confirmation that they are the same person however. One would not have expected him to be loose with the licensing of software downloadable from his ftp site.

Perhaps it would be more prudent to suggest people use the tools from the GNUWIN32 project.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net .
cp.exe, mv.exe, mkdir.exe, rm.exe, rmdir.exe are all to be found in the coreutils package. I must add that I have yet to try them.
 I don't think make is necessary, mingw32-make works fine for me.  zip.exe is also available at GNUWIN32 or from Info-Zip

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