Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:12 am
Any Make will do, GNU, BORLAND etc'.
The problem is that I can't find any.
The problem is that I can't find any.
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Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:37 am
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:40 am
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:07 am
But Cygwin is *Win*, not *DOS*... 
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:06 am
Thanks
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Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:03 am
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 wrote: But Cygwin is *Win*, not *DOS*...
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:43 am
When in doubt, I tend to take people literally.
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:12 pm
what is MAKE?
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:53 pm
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:Then execute "make all" to build it.
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.oRe:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:34 am
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.
It is mighty useful in larger software projects, where you don't want to recompile everything just because you touched one source file.
Re:Where can I find MAKE utility for Dos?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:03 pm
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:
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.