Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:46:07 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	jcook AT kla DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP make (3.73) usable as standalone exe?
In-Reply-To:	<54h3u6$gth@kla.com>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961022163928.5454C-100000@is>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On 22 Oct 1996 jcook AT kla DOT com wrote:

> installing of the rest of the DJGPP package.  I have found 
> make to work in this way using Windows 3.1 (although perhaps 
> it is not supposed to work this way), but have not yet tried 
> it under NT.

It should work on both platforms.  I suggest you get the latest Make 3.75
(mak375b.zip) though, as it has several significant improvements for
DOS/Windows platforms. 

> Are there any caveats to using make this way?  

There are always caveats with Make ;-).  Seriously, this depends on the
kind of trickery that you need to do on your Makefile.  The subtle points
are too many to describe or even remember, unless presented with a
specific case.  I suggest you try it and if you have problems that you
cannot understand, post questions here. 

Also, the non-DJGPP tools you are going to invoke from Make should better 
not be 16-bit DPMI programs, because DPMI 0.9 spec precludes mixing them 
with 32-bit DPMI programs (such as DJGPP port of Make or any other DJGPP 
program).

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