Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: William Gacquer To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Visual Studio Makefiles Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:30:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) Content-Type: text/plain Hello Well. I need some feedback. Which tool is the best one ( I use C++/Java ) : ANTLR, Flex/Bison, JFlex, CUP? Do someone knows if grammars for GNU makefiles exist? Did someone try "bake" or "cook" as a make replacement? Regards, William William Gacquer Ubi Studios - Ubi Soft Entertainment > -----Original Message----- > From: Tadeusz Liszka [SMTP:tad AT comco DOT com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:21 PM > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: Visual Studio Makefiles > > I was fighting with similiar project last year - and cursing Microsoft > :-) DevStudio has built in tests for the "consistency" of the project > files. One of these "tests" rejects the file if there is Unix newline > instead of DOS cr-lf bs. Yet they did not bother to warn that there are > obvious problems like several silently enforced size limits (e.g. max > length of include paths is 760 chars or so). > > I gave up and switched fully to Cygwin make driving VC++ in batch mode. > Be warned. > > Eric Christopher wrote: > > > > > Do anyone of you know what is the grammar of the Microsoft project > files/ > > > Gnu makefiles? What do you think about a converter based on ANTLR ( a > > > flex/Yacc like with a lot of enhancements) > > > > ..... > -- > Tadeusz > :: The public opinion should be alarmed by its own nonexistence > :: (512)467-0618 ext. 526 :: Stanislaw J. Lec, trans. TJL > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com