From: merten DOT schumann AT informatik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de (mesc) Subject: make and Watcom's wrc 9 Jan 1998 01:38:05 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello, I've got a problem in driving Watcom's resource compiler (wrc) by gnuwin32 make. I have to call the rc with this command line wrc -bt=nt -r -DFOO="88.55" -FO=xxx.res xxx.rc The wrc responds with 'syntax error near "88.66"'. When I use the same command in a normal DOS box everything goes fine. The problem seems to be, that the wrc doesn't get the quotes ("). I tried some constructs, like "\"88.66\"", with no success. I even tried to invoke a .bat file with the command from the makefile. It doesn't work too! When I call the .bat file in a normal DOS box it works. I could use a workaround and let sed edit the xxx.res on the fly and then call the wrc without the -DFOO="88.55" but maybe there is a better solution. Could please anyone give me a hint how to solve this problem? Thank you! Merten - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".