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Bug 173089 - [building projects] Why should IDE need make.exe on windows?
Summary: [building projects] Why should IDE need make.exe on windows?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@cnd
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Reported: 2009-09-25 11:38 UTC by matusdekanek
Modified: 2013-01-21 13:55 UTC (History)
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Description matusdekanek 2009-09-25 11:38:29 UTC
To compile a c++ project, the IDE requires specified paths to c++ compiler, c compiler, linker, etc, what is absolutely 
ok, these are installed by standart mingw installer (and on unix systems these are standard system utility).
But why does it need the 'make' utility, even on windows? That means I need install msys or similar utility, just to be 
able to build my c++ program on windows. 
This is really not necessary as the commands to build the project can be generated by the IDE and sent via the console 
to the compiler/linker (generating a makefile includes generating the commandline commands, so this should not be a 
significant problem).
Should such a solution be too complicated/unnecessary/unwanted, could there be added the support for the mingw32-make 
utility? 

Thanks
Comment 1 soldatov 2009-09-25 12:00:03 UTC
also IDE requires sh, cp, mkdir and rm utilities from msys or cygwin
Comment 2 igor_nikiforov 2013-01-21 13:55:14 UTC
As Valera mentioned, not only make.exe is required for IDE.
So there is no much sense to get rid of just make.exe.