I was given a C++ project that was compiled using MS Visual Studio .net 2003 C++ compiler, and a .mak file that was used to compile it. I am able to build it from the command line using nmake project.mak, but the compiler complains that afxres.h was not found. I did a little searching around and the afxres.h is in the Visual Studio dir...
Using ant I could unzip an archive before proceeding with the build per-se ... Is this possible using nmake ? Could I call an external application ? Or even a batch script ? ...
We have some old C code here that's built with nmake. Is there an automated way to pull the Makefile into Visual Studio 2005 and create a project? Some searching on MSDN indicates VS6 could do this, but it looks like VS7/8 dropped the feature. If necessary I can build the project from scratch using the project.mak file as a reference, ...
I am attempting to set up an nmake makefile to export our balsamiq mockup files to png files automatically, but I'm afraid I can't make heads nor tails of how to make a generic rule for doing so, without explicitly listing all the files I want exported. This page details the command line syntax for exporting the files, and this page con...
I want to use implicit linking in my project , and nmake really wants a .def file . The problem is , that this is a class , and I don't know what to write in the exports section . Could anyone point me in the right direction ? The error message is the following : NMAKE : U1073: don't know how to make 'DLLCLASS.def' P.S: I'm trying to...
There seems to be two major conventions for organizing project files and then many variations. Convention 1: High-level type directories, project sub-directories For example, the wxWidgets project uses this style /solution /bin /prj1 /prj2 /include /prj1 /prj2 /lib /prj1 /prj2 /src ...
Hi all, I have an nmake-based project which in turn calls the asp compiler, which can throw an error, which nmake seems to recognize: NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_compiler.exe' : return code '0x1' However, when I call nmake from within a batch file, the environment variable %ERRORLEV...
I have this tiny Qt project with a project file like this: TEMPLATE = lib TARGET = record32 VERSION = 0.0.1 DEPENDPATH += . INCLUDEPATH += . CONFIG += shared SOURCES += recorder.cpp HEADERS += recorder.h When I compile a library from it by qmake && nmake, it results into files record32.obj record320.lib record320.dll ... Why is th...
In a makefile, I have the following line: helper.cpp: dtds.h Which ensures that helper.cpp is rebuilt whenever dtds.h is changed. However, I want ALL files in the project to be rebuilt if either of two other header files change, kind like this: *.cpp: h1.h h2.h Obviously that won't work, but I don't know the right way to get nmake ...
In the program below, there are two things that I don't understand. How can I use this makefile in Microsoft VC? Why there is a '?' before '='? Program: ifeq ($(TARGET_COMPILER),ms) include ../makefile.ms.config DBG?= /Zi OPT= /Ox CXXFLAGS += $(COMMON_FLAGS) $(OPT) $(DBG) EEXT = $(EXT).dll ifeq ($(GZ...
I just got a new quad core computer and noticed that nmake is only using 1 process. I used to use make which had the switch -j4 for launching 4 processes. What is the nmake equivalent? [edit] Based on the information below I have been able to add a command to my qmake project file: QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += /MP Which effectively did it for ...
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 nmake, and I have a test makefile like this: sometarget: -mkdir c:\testdir I want to always create the directory, without having to specify 'sometarget'. For example, I can do this: !if [if not exist c:\testdir\$(null) mkdir c:\testdir] !endif But that requires two lines, where I really only want to...
I have a Qt project which I have had a debug console displayed whilst I am developing, I am about to ship the product to I removed the qmake console command: CONFIG += console However when I do that I get the following error: link /LIBPATH:"c:\Qt\4.5.0\lib" /NOLOGO /INCREMENTAL:NO /LTCG /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"./_obj/win32\Lynx.interm...
Hi all I am wondering what is NMAKE and how to use it? Is there any good tutorial with NMAKE thanks in advance ...
Hi I'd like to make below nmake code to produce check.mak file with the following contents: $(A) instead I get the following error: "NMAKE : fatal error U1040: internal error : macro expansion" Any suggestions? My nmake version is 9.00.30729.01 (VC 2008). OPTION = A FILE = check.mak all : @echo "$$($(OPTION))" > $(FILE) ...
Hi How to force echo command to output a tab character in MS nmake makefile? Verbatim tabs inserted right into a string after echo command are removed by nmake and don't show up in the output file. all : @echo I WANT TO OUTPUT THE <TAB> CHARACTER HERE! > output.txt ...
Hi How can I forward macros between nmake invocations? Let's say we have --- a.mak --- some_variable = value all: nmake -f b.mak --- END --- --- b.mak --- all: @echo some_variable = WHAT TO PUT HERE TO GET VALUE OF some_variable? --- END --- I was trying different things like using set and setx commands but value of vari...
How can I forward macros between nmake invocations from callee to caller? It's the reverse of what I was asking here: nmake - how to forward macros between nmake invocations? ...
I'd like to get value of variable named $(MYVAR)_SOME_SUFFIX in the b.mak makefile. Instead I get "b.mak(2) : fatal error U1001: syntax error : illegal character '$' in macro" # ---- a.mak ---- all : set MYVAR=SOME_PREFIX nmake -f b.mak #--- END --- # ---- b.mak ---- all: @echo $($(MYVAR)_SOME_SUFFIX) #--- END --- ...
I'm using a (somewhat outdated) Microsoft version of nmake, which is usually packaged with visual studio 6.0. (If there's a relevant answer for newer nmake - do let me know, I might consider upgrading). I wish to alter existing makefile, so that it would not include the dependency list if it is ran with the nmake dpndfull goal, which sh...