Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: nmake for cygwin? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: "cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hAJDRiQS013771 Robert Mark Bram wrote on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:22 AM: > 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. > 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. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/