Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by MaulingMonkey on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:57PM
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All the more reason to use a regular scripting language for building, then, since there are several that are plenty cross-platform.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by EdSharkey on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:06PM
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That is, unless the folks who maintain and champion make want me to use make. It's on them to court me, the cross-platform developer, not the other way around.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by Cyph0n on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:49PM
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Again, if you're a cross-platform developer, make is not for you. Do you also expect zsh enthusiasts to court Windows devs?
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by asveikau on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:32PM
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I kind of disagree, it's quite possible to use gnu make on Windows with msys (though requires some scripting discipline and probably not for everyone).
I'm currently doing this for a cross platform c++ project. Same makefile used for Linux, Mac, and windows+msys+cl.exe. (yes, fair amount of extra variables and ifdefs to support the last one...)
make was never intended to be a cross-platform tool. If you face problems using it on Windows, then that's on you.