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RE: Visual Studio Makefiles


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@comco.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:21 PM
> To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.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)
> > >
> .....
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> Tadeusz
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