Daniel,<br>
<br>
Yes, the free (beer) toolkit comes with a compiler (CL) and a version
of nmake. Nmake seems to make use of a slightly nuanced variety
of the make file format. There is also a free (beer) IDE for VC++
that is the 2005 Beta version of the program (.NET VC++ I think).
However, due to the resources at the school I'm currently at,
downloading and installing that is prohibitively large. I would
love to be able to use an IDE for Windows development, but I simply
don't have one available at the moment. I think it would be a
good idea, though, to try and translate the current Makefile into one
which could be used by nmake with the free compiler tools. I'll
look into it when I get the chance.<br>
<br>
--Greg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Glassey</b> <<a href="mailto:dglassey@gmail.com">dglassey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 29/08/05, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Greetings.<br>><br>> I am trying to build the sword library using the free tools from Microsoft
<br>> (free?! you ask - sure enough, the free VC++ toolkit). I am curious as to<br>> whether anyone else has prior experience at this task, and if so, if they<br>> have any guiding words of wisdom. So far I have made decent headway with
<br>> using MinGW to run './configure CPPFLAGS=-DWIN32 CC=cl CXX=cl LD=link' but I<br>> have had to edit a few minor files by hand<br>> (src/utilfuns/win32/dirent.{h,cpp}, lib/Makefile, &c), but<br>> I don't know if there is anything I definitely ought to look out for.
<br>> Thanks!<br><br>Hi Greg :)<br>I don't know anything about the free(beer) toolkit but does it come<br>with nmake or some other make equivalent? I don't know how hard it<br>would be to make nmake makefiles for it. Actually if anyone out there
<br>has the VC++ ide they should be able to use the project files (in<br>lib/vcppmake) to generate some kind of nmake file for you to use.<br><br>Or does the toolkit now come with a GUI. If so I think you'd be best<br>using that if you can to make a project for it.
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