use $(CURDIR) instead of "..\..\.." because the later does not allow to use options as --with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.3. It seems there is no common way to learn the current directory in Win32 make's: although nmake has MAKEDIR variable, nevertheless Borland make's MAKEDIR is the directory where make is installed, and OpenWatcom wmake has no MAKEDIR at all.

GNUmakefile, in svn it is available since 0.4.0 only.


make -f misc/GNUmakefile release

the required tools:
*) xsltproc to build CHANGES,
*) java and XSLScript ( http://pault.com/pault/XSLScript/ ) to build XSLTs
   from XSLScript sources.


make -f misc/GNUmakefile icons

the required tool:
*) netpbm to create Win32 icons from xpm sources.