[Chicken-users] makefile.vc is not NMAKE

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Frank <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure whether this helps you, but the new 2.315 just builds fine
> > w/ the VC 2003 toolkit when using makefile.vc and win-install.bat.
>
> Does the VC2003 toolkit have nmake? If yes, we can just throw
> away vcbuild.bat, as it has another bug (reported by Markus Hülsmann).

makefile.vc is not a NMAKE file.  It's a Unix makefile.  VC++ users 
would be required to have a working 'make' to build from sources.  
Slightly perverse, especially to someone lacking a Unix mindset, but not 
a dealbreaker  'make' is available for Windows, but some of the versions 
floating around are bugged.  There is no canonical way to get a 'make' 
for Windows, there are like 4 different "GNU on Windows" efforts that a 
Google search will turn up.  Not to mention Cygwin and MSYS.  MSYS has 2 
different makes!

I don't think the free toolkits have NMAKE in any event.  I think you 
have to get it from the Platform SDK.  Plus you'd have to write a NMAKE 
file.

Distributing a Windows binary gets around these problems for end-users.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every