It's not THAT important, but I like to do a filever -v xxx.exe
and see the version, if it's a debug build, and more. Or see the same informations in the Version tab of the file properties, or
see the product name in Process Explorer.
The .rc file is 52 lines altogher and may live in the w32 directory. It uses config.h to get the version.

The Nmakefile patch is only useful if the resource file is used.

I use another small patch for Microsoft compiler:
changing some lines, i.e.
    "$(LINK.o) $^ $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS) -o $@",
to
    "$(LINK.o) $^ $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS) $(OUTPUT_OPTION)",
in default.c. Then putting in the Makefiles
OUTPUT_OPTION=
silences the "-o option is obsolete" that cl spits out,
and allows me to use the -link options.
Could it be of general interest ? It does not change the default
rules because OUTPUT_OPTION is already "-o $@"

Regards.

Fabio

Hi all,

thank you for the fix, but it's not enough.
A similar fix is needed in the external declaration of
program in makeint.h at line 612.

I created a small .rc file for make.exe that I could send as
public domain and maybe adopted and included in Gnu make.
Are you interested in it ?
It also needs a small modification to NMakefile.template
to be compiled and used.

Regards

Fabio

Git commit ac67346d0fb5e "Improve constification of the codebase"
breaks compilation on Windows (at least).

The problem is in main.c:486
const char *program

and line 1187 of main.c
                program[argv0_len - 4] = '\0';
tries to change a const object.

Thank you.

Fabio