ac> Fri 2003-01-17 18:06, andrew clarke (3:633/267.1) wrote to Bob Jones:

 > I should check out DMAKE again.  It's been about 7 years since I used 
 > it.

 ac> I had a look around, and dmake-4.1pl1 (1998-12-09) 
 ac> seems to be the most recent version.  It does seem like 
 ac> it's no longer being actively developed.

 ac> http://public.activestate.com/gsar/dmake-4.1pl1-src.tar.gz
 ac> http://public.activestate.com/gsar/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.zip

Interesting.  I'll have to pursue this angle.....

 ac> There is no OS/2 binary provided, so you will need 
 ac> IBM's Visual Age C compiler (which I don't have) to 
 ac> build one from source, unless you want to have a go at 
 ac> porting it to another OS/2 compiler, which shouldn't be 
 ac> too difficult.  Or just skip all that and just look 
 ac> around for a prebuilt OS/2 binary somewhere.

Turns out the dmake in the Max source code package is a dual mode DOS
(16-bit) and OS/2 (32 bit) executable...  At least it runs as a 32 bit OS/2
executable (while [from memory] documented as a DOS executable).

 ac> And FWIW, I did get dmake to compile under FreeBSD 
 ac> using the Linux makefile but had #ifdef out "extern 
 ac> char *sys_errlist[];" in unix/runargv.c.

Interesting....

The source I have indecates that it is setup for unix based systems by
default, or at least that's what it looks like from default paths that are
used...

Now if I could get DMake to actually do something useful.  I must not have
something set right in the environment.

Take care....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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