Re: Make and VC++ compiler problems

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

I think your problem is that Cygwin's make uses /bin/sh.exe 
as its default shell, in its default MAKE_MODE, which is "unix".
If you open up a sh.exe shell, or a bash shell for that matter (IIRC), 
and type "copy" you will get a "command not found" error. 
You might be better off doing what Chris Faylor says, and using 
nmake. Not that he is discouraging your use of cygwin, but 
cygwin walks a fine line between POSIX and microsoft compatibility, 
when microsoft is doing their best to avoid any POSIX behavior. 

You can try setting MAKE_MODE=win32 in your environment, that will 
use the Windows command shell, which will recognize the copy command. 
IIRC there is no copy.exe because copy is a shell built in for 
windows.

Hope that helps,
Peter

camip@sol.dk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile a library using make and the Visual C++ compiler.
> 
> It's starting fine, but then it gives me this error: make[2]: copy: Command
> not found.
> 
> It's strange because it should know the copy command. I can't find any copy.exe
> anywhere. Could that be a problem?.
> 
> I'm compiling on platform win98.
> 
> Hope you can help me.
> 
> Camilla
> 
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