I think the nmake files should be separately maintained and named accordingly, and only have nmake content in them, like the pd/src/ makefile.nt. But I think 'makefile.nt' isn't a good name, it should be like 'makefile.windows' or 'makefile.msvc' or 'makefile.nmake'.
From my experience, makefiles that mix proper make and nmake stuff are just a massive headache. Or maybe M$ is just a massive headache, so I want to wrap it in GNU. Just a spoonful of sugar makes the "medicine" go down...
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Another fly in the ointment -- I use the extra/*/makefile s when compiling for windows under Visual C (the ugly "nmake" program) -- and haven't been able to figure out how to do that from a central spot yet.
cheers Miller
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:27:17AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:10 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2010-07-15 16:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
FYI: if you remove all makefiles in 'extra' you can replace it with the extra/Makefile from pd-gui-rewrite-0.43 which builds all objects in 'extra'. It has the added advantage of working on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW and Cygwin, plus is based on the Makefile template for libraries. The existing 'extra' makefiles have always been problematic when it comes to anything but GNU/Linux.
true. however the extra/Makefile from pd-gui-rewrite is again a big monolithic chunk with all files (and by-now non-existant files as well) enumerated. it reminds me of the old externs/Makefile for pd-extended. that's one reason why i chose not to use that.
fgmasdr IOhannes
One good feature that a build system should provide is to notify you when files are missing. So if files have been removed from pd/extra in 0.43, then the build system should tell you that. Then you should edit the Makefile so it has an up-to-date list of relevant files.
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