Re: Problems building gnu make on Winnt 4.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, James Schrumpf wrote:

> When I run the command 'nmake /f NMakefile, I get many errors in the 
> compilations for WinRel.  I get the same errors for WinDebug:
> 
> cl /nologo /MT /W3 /GX /Zi /YX /I . /I glob /I w32/include /D WIN32 /D W
> INDOWS32 /D _CONSOLE /D HAVE_CONFIG_H /O2 /D NDEBUG /FR.\WinRel/ 
> /Fp.\WinRel/mak
> e.pch /Fo.\WinRel/ /c ar.c
> ar.c
> ar.c(313) : warning C4113: 'int (__cdecl *)()' differs in parameter lists 
> from '
> int (__cdecl *)(const void *,const void *)'

I think these warnings are harmless.

> The link command 'link @C:\TEMP\nma00307.' seems to go OK.  However running 
> the run_make_tests script fails on 10 of the tests with an 
> interrupt/exception error, and trying to use the resulting make.exe results 
> in the same interrupt/exceptions being caught.

Are you saying that each Makefile, even the simplest one, generates an 
exception?

> When I use the build_w32.bat scripts I get the same errors, but the script 
> reports that WinRel and WinDebug have built correctly.  I still get the 
> interrupt/exeption errors.

Again, with each Makefile?

The file README.W32 instructs you to set certain environment variables 
before compiling.  Did you do that?

Also note that README.W32 says that the build was tested with MSVC 4.x, 
not with 6.0.