do you have micosoft visual studio 6 installed?  if you do, the next 
guess is that its probably a path issue.  (as in, your path has to point 
to the directory in the installation folder for VC6 that has the 
nmake.exe file.)
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Matthew William Timmis wrote:
>Hi 
>
>I'm very new to pd and can't work out how to compile an external, I'm using 
>windows 98. It would be great if someone could write some step by step 
>instructions of how to do this , I don't understand the text file in the 
>documentation about it where its says to use nmake pd_nt, where do I write 
>this, I've tryed doing it in the command line and it justs says that there is 
>no such file.
>
>Could some body please help me, sorry for being so ignorant
>
>thanks
>
>Matthew
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