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RE: nmake for cygwin?
- From: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:27:32 +0100
- Subject: RE: nmake for cygwin?
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
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