W03) Why do I need a MAKE facility?
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W03) Why do I need a MAKE facility?
Question:
I do not have a MAKE facility on my Windows 95/NT machine. Why do I need
that - I thought that the BETA compiler analyzed the dependencies itself?
Answer:
The BETA compiler keeps track of dependencies between all involved beta
files. However, if you want to link in object files generated by an external
C compiler og assembler, you may add a MAKE property to make the BETA
compiler invoke the make-facility to keep the external objectfiles
up-to-date (see section 2.4 in "The Mjolner System - Using on Windows 95 /
Windows NT [mia94-32]).
If you do not use the MAKE property in your programs, in principle you do
not need a make facility. But since a few of the standard libraries included
in the Mjolner System contains such MAKE properties, you will need a
make-facility anyway. However, since all external object files in the
standard libraries are up-to-date when distributed by Mjolner Informatics,
you can do with a dummy make-utility.
For instance you may create a C file like this:
main()
{
exit(0);
}
compile it with your C compiler, and install it in your path with the name
MAKE.EXE (if you use the Borland SDK) or NMAKE.EXE (if you use the Microsoft
SDK).
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