Install the cygwin tools. These supply you with a gnu development
environment under Wintel. Go to www.cygwin.com, which will take
you to a place on the redhat site, since redhat recently bought
them.
If you're interested mainly in make, just download the execute-only
environment. This gives a bash shell, make, awk, gcc, g++, f77,
etc., but not other things, like PERL. But you can always use the
basic tools to compile the other gnu tools. If you want the other
gnu stuff precompiled, cygwin will sell you a CD with "everything"
on it for $99.
It sounds as if the basics will do for you.
One more thing: the tools are free for non-commercial use, but
you have to pay for commercial use.
-P.
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Alvaro Agustin Fernandez wrote:
> By PC, I specifically mean a Wintel machine. I have source code and
> a makefile for a research code which I would like to install on my
> home PC. The main problem is that my compiler's make utility (Absoft
> f90) is, in the words of an Absoft tech support person, "a little
> brain dead." He doubted that Absoft's make() would be able to handle
> some of the more esoteric parts of the makefile. I verified that.
> :-(
>
> I don't want to decipher the makefile and do things manually if I
> can at all avoid it. I'm left with the option of hoping somebody
> ported gnumake to the Wintel platform. Has anybody done that? Or is
> there some other approach I haven't thought of?
>
> Alvaro Fernandez
>
> PS I wanted to mention how impressed I have been over time with the
> level of expertise I have found in this mailing list. It has helped
> enormously in my doctoral research, and I thank everyone.
>
> A.F.
>
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