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From: Twan Jans-Beken <jabe AT oce DOT nl>
Subject: Re: MAKE, MINGW32 and ALLEGRO on WinNT
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:50:39 GMT
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You are correct. I found a "make.exe" on ftp.franken.de (Mumit Kahn) and it
works OK!

By the way: When compiling Allegro for mingw32 I got an error from make
that the  environment variable "SYSTEMROOT" was not defined. I checked it
and it appears that WinNT defines "SystemRoot". When I renamed it to the
all uppercase variant everything worked.
I don't know who should pickup this topic: Mumit, Shawn or Bill. Hopefully
one of them is triggerd by the title of this message.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Twan Jans-Beken wrote:
>
> > --- Console output start ---
> > C:\mingw\v\appgen>make
> > g++ -c -IC:\mingw\v\includew  -O2 -D_WIN32 -DDEVEL -DGNUWIN32 -o
> > C:\mingw\v\obj\gnuwin32/vgcmdw.o vgcmdw.cpp
> > make.exe: *** [C:\mingw\v\obj\gnuwin32/vgcmdw.o] Error -1
> > --- Console output end ---
> >
> > Now, when I type-in the exact same line manually it DOES work. Again,
> > see the console-output below.
>
> This is probably because of the following problems:
>
>  1. You are running the DJGPP version of Make on NT4, where it cannot
>     access the long file names (ask Bill why not).  So Make cannot
>     find g++, because `g++.exe' is an invalid DOS file name.
>     Solution: use the DOS file name (probably something like g~1.exe)
>     instead.
>
>  2. The command line is longer than 126 characters, and Make cannot
>     pass long command lines to non-DJGPP programs.
>
> In the long run, if you use Mingw32 a lot, you will probably be better
> off if you install a native Win32 port of GNU Make (sorry, no URL).