RES: [Dev-C++] Convert Makefile to Dev-C++ project

[Daniel K. O. <dan...@ya...>]

If you want to do it with minimum effort, you can try Cygwin - almost an
entire OS, so you'll probably just need to type './configure' and 'make'.
Even with MSYS you can compile most of them like this.


I compiled many GNU programs under Windows with Dev-Cpp, the task is simple:

1- Create a project
2- Add the files
3- Look at the Makefile for the
 * CFLAGS/CCFLAGS/CwhateverFLAGS/every-compiler-switch and add them to
Compiler Options
 * LDFLAGS/LIBS/whatever-that-seems-like-linker-options and add them to
Linker Options
4- If the sources need a config.h file, and you can't run the ./configure
script, look for a "acconfig.h" (or any "*config.h") that came with the
sources (or you can search on Google for one) and edit the #define's
properly. Rename it to "config.h" and include it in your project.


I don't think I would ever need a tool to convert it to a dev's project
file; I just need
1- some clicks (create a project)
2- some more clicks (Add File -> Ctrl+A -> Open)
3- copy/paste from Makefile to Dev
4- a few key-hits (F2, "acconfig.h" -> "config.h", Add file..., edit it a
little)







Daniel K. O.


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 >  -----Mensagem original-----
 >  De: dev...@li...
 >  [mailto:dev...@li...]Em nome de Louis Godio
 >  Enviada em: sexta-feira, 21 de março de 2003 12:07
 >  Para: gi...@li...; dev...@li...
 >  Assunto: Re: [Dev-C++] Convert Makefile to Dev-C++ project
 >
 >
 >  Hi list,
 >  This is an important topic for those of us that want to
 >  port GNU source code to DevC++.
 >
 >  GNU source code is made to compile under gcc compilers.
 >  And all GNU source uses makefiles. But I for one spend enormous
 >  amounts of
 >  time trying to get GNU code to compile under DevCpp. And the problem is
 >  almost always the GNU makefile.
 >
 >  If you try to ignore the GNU makefile and load the source files into
 >  a DevC++ progect, then compile, you get tons of compile and link errors.
 >  For example, try to compile the GNU UNSHAR code (which is a simple code
 >  with a complex makefile).
 >
 >  The person asking this question, and I'm sure many other DevC++ users,
 >  need a practical tool or solution to this makefile problem.
 >  I'm also sure that any help, advice etc. would be greatly appreciated by
 >  these users.