Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Where's make (specifically, x86_64-w64-mingw32-make.exe)?

2011-03-26 Thread James K Beard
I think that the Microsoft Visual Studios all come with make, even the free ones. It's not with the OS but it's there in even the most casual developer because it's hard to develop for Windows and not find that you have one version of MVS or another. James K Beard -Original Message-

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64 Decimal Floating Point math

2011-03-26 Thread James K Beard
If the mantissa has at least seven or eight bits below the binary point, equivalence to the cents level is achieved by |x-y| < 0.005; the half-cent is x'0.0147ae' which can be done in any decent language. If you do it as a procedure, you can do magnitude checks to ensure that the magnitude of the

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Where's make (specifically, x86_64-w64-mingw32-make.exe)?

2011-03-26 Thread James K Beard
Fedora comes with a make, currently GNU make 3.82. If you ask for the software development package on installation, it's part of that, or you can get it with the add/remove software function. That means that RPM and yum packages are either on the GNU or Sourceforge pages, at least for x86 and