[Aldor-l] aldor/NMakefile

[Bill Page]

On 9/8/07, Laurentiu Dragan wrote:
>
> I should include cygwin as a requirement besides visual studio. It might
> work with msys, but I haven't tested it yet.

No, I do not think you should make cygwin a requirement when using
visual studio. Very few Windows developers would accept such a
suggestion.  In fact for the build I just completed I showed that this
is not necessary. The only missing functionality 'dos2unix' can easily
be added to the Aldor tools.

>
> For tests, cygwin is required to allow me to use the same tests as in
> Linux. Some of the tests are bourne shell scripts.

Surely almost all of these can be written to be platform independent, no?

>
> Running the testaxl tests (after make distrib):
> 1. cd lib\axllib\test
> 2. make tests (requires cygwin's make)
>

Thanks I will try running the tests this way, but I really think that
for Windows developers we need a better solution. Cygwin as an
alternate build environment is fine, but it should not be a
requirement if the developer chooses MSVC as their build environment.
I think the same thing applies to MSYS/MinGW. Most Windows developers
would strongly prefer to avoid this non-native tool sets if at all
possible.

I will try to spend some time to see how many of the tests can be run
from just nmake and Microsoft tools on Windows.

> Thank you for the patch!

You are welcome.

Regards,
Bill Page.