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 Message-ID: <03c401c3aea3$03bd8480$590f10ac@uk.circle.com> From: "Vince Hoffman" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= , "cygwin" References: Subject: Re: nmake for cygwin? Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:42:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 >> 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 -- 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/ -- 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/