Re: MS Free compiler

[Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...>]

Hi Arnold!

On 15/09/05 15:40, Arnold Wiegert wrote:

> Hello Salvador,
>
> I got a chance to work some more with the free compiler tests.
>
> After downloading the Sep 12 snapshot etc. I found the following:
>
> In tvision:
>
> invoking nmake -f Makefile.nmk
> only compiled mlink.c
>
> going to makes and trying
>       nmake MKF_EXT=".nmk" -f librhtv.bmk
> did nothing more, but
>       nmake MKF_EXT=".nmk" -f librhtv.bmk librhtv.lib
> did compile the library
>
> But when I try to compile setedit, all it compiles is infview - and it 
> seems to run when I load it.
>
> When I modify Makefile.bcc as:
> editor: libs
>    -cd makes
>    $(MAKE) MKF_EXT="$(MKF_EXT)" DEBUG="$(DEBUG)" -f editor.bmk all
>    -cd ..


Ok, I see, the "all" target isn't special like in GNU/Make. I'm adding 
"all" to setedit *and* tvision.

> It finally compiles the editor code, but at the end I get this error
> ..............
>  Creating library editor.lib and object editor.exp
> pcre.lib(study.o) : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol 
> _pcre_malloc importe
> d in function _pcre_study
> specs.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "char const * 
> __cdecl GetV
> ariable(char const *)" (?GetVariable@@YAPBDPBD@Z) referenced in 
> function "char *
> __cdecl expand_variable(char *)" (?expand_variable@@YAPADPAD@Z)
> editor.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'mlink' : return code '0x460'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"I:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform 
> SDK\Bin\nmake.e
> xe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> Hope this make sense to you - I'm not all that familiar with nmake 
> because I usually use another make utility, so I'm guessing a lot.

Thanks, it makes sense, even when I don't use nmake at all ;-)
The undefined reference seems to be a consequence of the (brut force) 
methode used by mlink.

I'm updating the snapshots.

Regards, SET

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