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Re: nmake for cygwin?
- From: "Vince Hoffman" <vince dot hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>, "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:42:12 -0000
- Subject: Re: nmake for cygwin?
- References: <F0D7281DAB048B438E8F5EC4ECEFBDDC174FA1@esmail.elsag.de>
>> Howdy All!
>>
>> Is there an nmake for cygwin? I looked it up in setup.exe under the
>> development category but could not find one.
>No, and since nmake is MS's make tool, it will not happen, since MS does
not offer the source.
Just to muddy the waters somewhat Lucent (or AT&T as it used to me i think)
also have an nmake utility
heres a link to the faq entry comparing it to gmake.
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html
>> Would there be a reason to use nmake over make anyway? (I have a
>> makefile that failed under 'make' and the readme said to use nmake..)
>Yes. You seem to have a nmake-makefile, so you have to use nmake, unless
you're rewriting it. Hint: Make-syntax is normally >not compatible between
different make utilities.
Of course this still applys anyway.
>Regards,
>Jörg
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