> I've been playing with the Max/Squish source code again trying to get 
 > it to compile in one of my environments.  One item I've played with is 
 > the Open Watcom IDE.  It would take a bit of work to get all of the 
 > Maximus source code properly defined through that interface to use the 
 > Open Watcom make program.  Do you know of a good way 
 > to generate needed 
 > make files using an open sourced make program or IDE system?

 ac> I write makefiles by hand.  I don't use IDEs much these 
 ac> days, but when I do, I'll just look at my makefile and 
 ac> manually create a project file from it. Which is much 
 ac> easier than creating a makefile from a project file, 
 ac> unless the IDE has the ability to generate one, in 
 ac> which case it usually turns out to be an syntactic mess 
 ac> and/or full of redundancy.

Understand....  About the only automated make file setup I've used and
liked was the integrated enviornment in NextStep with it's project builder
(which used the GNU C/C++/Objective-C compiler, Linker and Make setup).

 ac> If you build a target from a project file with Watcom's 
 ac> IDE, it will generate *.mk file.  You can then use 
 ac> "wmake -f project.mk", but if you try using DMAKE 
 ac> instead it will complain about it because it's very 
 ac> WMAKE-specific (and not like a standard makefile).

Thank you for your comments on the watcom IDE.  If I'm going to re-do the
make files I want something more portable.  It may be time to pull out the
GNU version of make.

Thanks.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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