From: Anonymous on
Thanks, build is not so bad after all, I think I like it more than
nmake now, thanks!!


From: Anonymous on
> I know, and, I did suggest the in a follow-up posting.
> My point was that running a makefile that is not "dependent"
> from the sources file is a way to ask for trouble.
> It's better to relay on standard ways of doing things

YES!!

> and divert from the beaten path only when needed, than
> trying to list all the possible variations of environment variable
> and command line options of every tool that could
> make things to work or not to work.
>
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> >> Using external makefiles (other than makefile.def) is not supported
under
> >> the DDK.
> >
> > Why? NTTARGETFILES= and then MAKEFILE.INC
> >
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From: Pavel A. on
"Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:
> With GCC, you can ask the compiler to "list
> all #include dependencies to stdout", but the MS's compiler seems to not

Try CL /ShowIncludes

Regards,
--PA

From: Pavel A. on
Will DDK build procedure move to the msbuild direction?
Build.exe has some obscure options referring to XML...

--PA

From: Maxim S. Shatskih on
> "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:
> > With GCC, you can ask the compiler to "list
> > all #include dependencies to stdout", but the MS's compiler seems to not
>
> Try CL /ShowIncludes

D:\sb>cl /ShowIncludes
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.2179 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.

cl : Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '/ShowIncludes'
cl : Command line error D2003 : missing source filename

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