Re: Using Nmake from GNU-make

[Daniel Herring]

Hi Gisle,

I seem to remember DOS having different command-line parsing semantics.

Maybe quoting the parameters differently would help?  Something like the 
following.

gnss_libf2c.lib:
 cd libf2c ; nmake.exe "-nologo -f Makefile.VC all"
 cp libf2c/vcfc2.lib $@


If that doesn't work, one of the Sysinternals tools like the process 
monitor might help.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon


Good luck,
Daniel


On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> Hello list.
>
> Now I have the need to use an already quite large
> Makefile written for Microsoft's 'NMake', from within
> GNU-make 4.390. Like:
>
> gnss_libf2c.lib:
>  cd libf2c ; nmake.exe -nologo -f Makefile.VC all
>  cp libf2c/vcfc2.lib $@
>
> but Nmake errors with:
>  Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.26.28806.0
>  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
>  NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'
>  Stop.
>
> Adding a '--debug' gives no clues either.
>
> Rewriting to:
>
> SHELL = cmd.exe:
> gnss_libf2c.lib:
>  cd libf2c & nmake.exe -nologo -f Makefile.VC all
>  cp libf2c/vcfc2.lib $@
>
> gives the same error. I use Cygwin as my shell normally, but
> it doesn't look like a SHELL issue to me. From the cmd-line,
> Nmake has no problem; hence I suspect some issue with GNU-make.
>
> And using ProcessMonitor, I see no problem with the cmd-line
> in CreateProcessA() either. What could I do?
>
> --
> --gv