nmake for cygwin?

[Jörg Schaible]

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

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