I feel a little daft for postsing this question, but here goes, anyhow:

I'd like to install dig (and particularly digc, since I'm getting tired of managing dependencies myself), so I downloaded it, but I have to run the go.bat file, which in turn calls "make install".

The only C/C++ compiler I have installed on this machine is the freshly downloaded DMC compiler, and it didn't come with gnumake. So I went to the gnu site to download gnumake, and there are no precompiled win32 binaries. I looked at the contents of the archive, and sure enough, there are makefiles. How am I supposed to run make to compile gnumake if I don't have make installed yet?

So I'm sitting here staring at the dig and digc stuff (that I'd love to be using right now), and I'm feeling a little too stupid to figure out what I need to do next. Please forgive my ignorance, but my programming experience so far has been limited to Java, JavaScript, PHP, VB, and perl (as well as various markup languages). I've done some C++ programming, but always from within VC++, and I'm at a loss for how to get gnumake installed.

Maybe Burton could provide some precompiled binaries of digc in addition to the source?

Stop glazing so sadly at your "ignorance"! Stare better at \dmc\bin. Nah, see it? make.exe. *This* and not GNU make, is the make intended to be used with dig! Just make sure it's in your path.

BTW, if you want some common UNIX utilities cleanly ported to Windows, including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i remember correctly...

But you don't need it now.

-i.

"Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> wrote in message
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| including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't
| remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i

http://www.mingw.org So hard to remember =P

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> "Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> wrote in message
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> | including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't
> | remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i
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> http://www.mingw.org So hard to remember =P
>
>

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"BenjiSmith" <BenjiSmith_member@pathlink.com> a écrit dans le message news: bgpckv$2ac0$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> The only C/C++ compiler I have installed on this machine is the freshly downloaded DMC compiler, and it didn't come with gnumake. So I went to the
gnu
> site to download gnumake, and there are no precompiled win32 binaries. I
looked
> at the contents of the archive, and sure enough, there are makefiles. How
am I
> supposed to run make to compile gnumake if I don't have make installed
yet?

In the gnumake package for win32 there is a script called win32-build.bat or something like that. Just run it, you dont need make for that. Before running it, you must do a change in the script ( its broken ) and add entries for hash.c in the debug & release "target".

<message to walter>

I was unable to build "parrot" with you version of make because of a "read error at line ...". Do you want the makefile for debuging ?

</message to walter>

-- Nicolas Repiquet

Greg Peet wrote:
> "Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> wrote in message
> news:bgpe3l$2brq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> | including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't
> | remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i
> 
> http://www.mingw.org So hard to remember =P
> 
> 
also http://cygwin.com

Aha. Thanks.

--Benji Smith

In article <bgpe3l$2brq$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...
>
>Stop glazing so sadly at your "ignorance"! Stare better at \dmc\bin. Nah, see it? make.exe. *This* and not GNU make, is the make intended to be used with dig! Just make sure it's in your path.
>
>BTW, if you want some common UNIX utilities cleanly ported to Windows, including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i remember correctly...
>
>But you don't need it now.
>
>-i.
>

"Greg Peet" <admin@gregpeet.com> wrote in message news:bgpgob$2egc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Ilya Minkov" <midiclub@8ung.at> wrote in message
> news:bgpe3l$2brq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> | including GNU make, you can come by at the MinGW project site (i can't
> | remember the URL, it's easy to find), and there you'll see MSYS, if i
>
> http://www.mingw.org So hard to remember =P
>
I've been using cygwin as I had problems with make and dmd under msys (use msys gcj) and cygwin for palmos dev.

e.g.
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.obj : %.d
 $(DMD) $(subst /,\,$<) $(DFLAGS) -o$(subst /,\,$(OBJ_DIR)/$(SRC_DIR))

which works under cygwin but under msys I could not get it working even with
subst( /, \\ .... )
I'm using 2K which like NT4 I beileve can handle unix paths although is
seems dmd does not quite like them
if someone gets makefiles working under msys plz post what you used as I'd
prefer to use msys but as cygwin worked I used it (I'd prefer to be using
msys as its less to download) and put on each machine, and my makefiles use
gnu make isms quite extensively.