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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/