Re: [AD] Patch for makefile issue when compiling MSVC with Cygwin

[Milan M. <mil...@gm...>]

Andrei Ellman wrote:
> 
> Has the MSVC makefile for 4.3 forked off from the one for 4.2 yet? If 
> not, we can easilly apply the fixes to both. makefile.vc in 4.2.1 is 
> already broken if using the current version of Cygwin's make, so we 
> might as well un-uglify the build-system while we're at it.

We use scons in 4.3. I don't know if makefiles are going to be dropped 
completely. If not then we should unuglify it.

> Ermm... don't we already need win32-api to be able to build the Allegro 
> windows build?

No. If you are using mingw to build allegro with MSVC, you don't need 
mingw win32-api package. msvchelp, runner and co. are built using gcc.

> 
> And while I'm here, as well as fixing the 'cygpath' for MSVC, do we also 
> need to do the same for the Borland C makefile and other Windows compilers?

I assume Borland C makefile is broken for ages because no one uses it.


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