I saw a bunch of posts about people converting DSW's and nmake makefiles to normal makefiles.  Is that stuff done yet? :) I'm wondering because I just got the DMC CD and there are lots of things in the "samples" directory that seem to require newish microsoft tools.  It's kind of funny that there doesn't seem to be any way to build these samples that are included with the CD. The blurb about smake on the website is that it's compatable with nmake, but it seems that's only true of much older versions of nmake.

I suppose that would be fine if I had VC++ installed, but I'm kind of avoiding it.  I can afford $100 for Visual C++ .NET Standard to get nmake and such, hoping that DM's cl.exe proxy is a drop-in replacement for MS's compiler since I'll be tempted to use the VC++ IDE if I pay good money for it.  I know I'm committing blasphemy here, but I'm so confused :) Well, at least I draw the line at paying over a grand for Visual Studio.

"Mike Jolley" <Mike_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cabibb$8is$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I saw a bunch of posts about people converting DSW's and nmake makefiles
to
> normal makefiles.  Is that stuff done yet? :) I'm wondering because I just
got
> the DMC CD and there are lots of things in the "samples" directory that
seem to
> require newish microsoft tools.  It's kind of funny that there doesn't
seem to
> be any way to build these samples that are included with the CD. The blurb
about
> smake on the website is that it's compatable with nmake, but it seems
that's
> only true of much older versions of nmake.

The samples should compile as is with the tools on the CD.

>The samples should compile as is with the tools on the CD.

I don't doubt they'll compile once the makefiles are corrected.  At the moment each makefile isn't finding the directories in DIRLIST because it's assuming each directory is a subdirectory.  I'll figure it out tomorrow :)

So smake really is fully compatible with recent versions of nmake?  That would be sweet.

Thanks, sorry to seem irate.

"Mike Jolley" <Mike_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cabm63$esr$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >The samples should compile as is with the tools on the CD.
>
> I don't doubt they'll compile once the makefiles are corrected.  At the
moment
> each makefile isn't finding the directories in DIRLIST because it's
assuming
> each directory is a subdirectory.  I'll figure it out tomorrow :)
>
> So smake really is fully compatible with recent versions of nmake?

No, but it is compatible with the makefiles in the samples.

Walter escreveu:
[snipped]

>>
>>So smake really is fully compatible with recent versions of nmake?
> 
> 
> No, but it is compatible with the makefiles in the samples.
> 

Then somewhat in the canonical installation is missing:

C:\DM\SAMPLES\WIN32\BASE\GDIDEMO>smake

SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
All Rights Reserved

SMAKE fatal error: C:\DM\INCLUDE\NTWIN32.MAK(3): can't open include file
Stopping.

C:\DM\SAMPLES\WIN32\BASE\GDIDEMO>

Be assured that DM\INCLUDE\WIN32\NTWIN32.H and DM\INCLUDE\WIN32\WIN32.H exist.

--
Cesar Rabak

smake -f gdidemo.mak

works.

"Cesar Rabak" <crabak@acm.org> wrote in message news:40CCBA89.3080007@acm.org...
> Walter escreveu:
> [snipped]
>
> >>
> >>So smake really is fully compatible with recent versions of nmake?
> >
> >
> > No, but it is compatible with the makefiles in the samples.
> >
>
> Then somewhat in the canonical installation is missing:
>
> C:\DM\SAMPLES\WIN32\BASE\GDIDEMO>smake
>
> SMAKE  Program Maintenance Utility (Console) Version 7.50
> Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Innovative Data Concepts Incorporated
> Copyright (c) 1994-2001 Digital Mars
> All Rights Reserved
>
> SMAKE fatal error: C:\DM\INCLUDE\NTWIN32.MAK(3): can't open include file
> Stopping.
>
> C:\DM\SAMPLES\WIN32\BASE\GDIDEMO>
>
> Be assured that DM\INCLUDE\WIN32\NTWIN32.H and DM\INCLUDE\WIN32\WIN32.H exist.
>
> --
> Cesar Rabak
>