[Aldor-l] aldor/NMakefile

[Bill Page]

Laurentiu,

I have been trying to build Aldor on a Windows system using MSVC, but
the build stops very quickly with an apparent missing file as shown in
the following Windows session:

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Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>cd \aldor-source

C:\aldor-source>cd aldor

C:\aldor-source\aldor>nmake /f NMakefile aldorcompiler

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1052: file 'NMakefile' not found
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\n
make.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

C:\aldor-source\aldor>

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The NMakefile script is looking for a file called aldor\NMakefile. In
fact NMakefiles only appear in the lib\ source tree. There are none in
the aldor\ tree.

I do not see any NMakefiles at all in the cvs at scl.csd.uwo.ca so I
presume that these files came from some other source distribution? If
so, maybe they were not all copied into the svn repository?

Also as you probably know, the documentation associated with the
Windows build is mostly outdated and inaccurate. Can you give me a
recipe for building Aldor on Windows that is known to work?

My objective, after getting Aldor to build successfully on Windows at
least once anyway that is currently possible, is to get it to build
using MSYS/MinGW.

Regards,
Bill Page.