Re: Windows make issues

[J. Grant]

on the 20/04/04 22:12, Jim wrote:
> I'm using a version of make 3.80 compiled for windows using visual studio.
>
> There are some issues.....
>
> a> some windows compilers like to have \'s in path names.  If I'm not 
> running sh.exe - make itself seems to strip the \'s before issuing the 
> command... when it prints the command it's about to do, that looks 
> correct, and I can copy and paste what I see, and it works, however, if 
> I dump the actual command line generated the \'s in the path names are 
> all removed.

Could you "escape" them? i.e. c:\\dev\\dev.cpp  (Single \ are not 
removed when I tried this on my MSVC build with a simple makefile 
though, with a path in a variable.)

If you try the debug build from MSVC you will have more output on your 
terminal if that helps.


Regards

JG