RE: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> Sent: dinsdag 20 mei 2014 13:53
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency
> 
> > It seems that plain MinGW doesn't have `rm` or `install` executables
> > (or a `mkdir` that understands `-p`), so you really have to work hard
> > to make the install target work for MinGW ...
> 
> We haven't got any complaints about this but perhaps we should just
> remove the mingw target and avoid noise?

So.... there was some opposition to remove the MinGW target. But what if a separate makefile for MinGW was included (in /etc for example, similar to the /etc/luavs.bat file for Visual Studio)?

It would allow a specific makefile, working on more Windows configurations (eg. No 'cp', or 'rm', but their plain Windows equivalents) without polluting the generic makefile.

Thijs