To build this tool you first need to install Visaul C++ Studio .NET 2003. Open the mhmake.sln file in Visual Studio and compile for Debug and for Release. 2 executables are generated by this process: - Release\mhmake.exe : gnu make compatible make program with some specific extension is make the build process faster. - Debug\mhmake_dbg.exe : Has the same functionality but does extra error checking on makefiles and has extra debugging options. This one is advised to be used when creating makefiles. When the makefiles are fully debugging mhmake.exe is a better choise because here the build process will be faster. mhmake.exe is more likely to crash when badly written makefiles are passed as input.