Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?

[Red Shaya]

Any Make will do, GNU, BORLAND etc'.
The problem is that I can't find any.

[Solar]

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

[Neo]

http://www.cygwin.com
A nicer developer environment itself.

[Solar]

But Cygwin is *Win*, not *DOS*...

[Red Shaya]

Thanks

Previously I had problems connecting to the FTP.
It took me this try to discover the HTTP connection

http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/

[Neo]

But Cygwin is *Win*, not *DOS*...

I just didn't think there would be people using plain old DOS out there. I thought he would be using it from a DOS box in Windows.

[Solar]

When in doubt, I tend to take people literally.

[Joey]

what is MAKE?

[AR]

It's a program that executes a specialised script, usually to compile a program that is written in C/C++ in the Unix world. It is suited to this because of the ease of version determination and recompilation when the source is modified.

Example script:

Code: Select all

all: myfile1.o myfile2.o
     $(LD) myfile1.o myfile2.o -o MyProgram

myfile1.o: myfile1.c
     $(CC) -c myfile1.c -o myfile1.o

myfile2.o: myfile2.c
     $(CC) -c myfile2.c -o myfile2.o

Then execute "make all" to build it.

[Solar]

More generally speaking, 'make' is a utility that checks whether a 'source' has been modified after a 'target' has last been created, and runs one or more commands if that is the case (usually to rebuild the 'target' from the 'source').

It is mighty useful in larger software projects, where you don't want to recompile everything just because you touched one source file.

[DevL]

In addition, make is often used to not only build software, but also install it. This is especially true for UNIX envirionements.

Here's an easily digested link: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/current/smith.html

You just have to love this excerpt:

The old UNIX joke, by the way, is what early versions of make said when it could not find the necessary files. In the example above, if there was no love.o, love.c or any other source format, the program would have said:
make: don't know how to make love. Stop.