Re: dmake resurrected

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:49:16AM +0300, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
> It appears that in order to copile Sarathy's version on CPAN one needs to
> apply a patch from CPAN
> [http://search.cpan.org/src/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.patch
> ]
> 
> Now it does not applies cleanly, but it could be adopted however (not tried
> yet, but sure its doable).
> 
> Also looks like it must be built with borland compiler: MSVC supported but
> looks like many modifications are done for borland compiler.
> 
> Compiling with MSVC works but "dmake.exe" fails to find directory with
> startup.mk file unless explicitly specified with DMAKEROOT=[path]
> 
> Just building with Borland compiler 5.0 does not works - not investigated
> why.

Are you saying that you have to apply Sarathy's old patch to the new sources?


> > It would be nice if some brave Windows user could compile up 
> > a Win32 binary 
> > and put it up on CPAN to replace Sarathy's older version.
> 
> If there will be no brave user within given period of time, I can try
> afterwards...

Ok, thank you.


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