From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help-complete newcomer
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:43:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43580F9C.5080703@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43580b6e$0$41147$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
> On UNIX systems, where Emacs originated, there is a command called
> 'make'.
> This takes a file containing set of instructions (called a
> 'makefile'), which
> tells make how to compile your program's source files.
>
> On MS Windows, Visual Studio has a make program, IIRC its called 'nmake'.
> Visual Studio can export a project files as a make file. Cygwin
> ( http://www.cygwin.com/ ) also provides a make program.
Unfortunately nmake behaves a bit differently than unix style make
programs like GNU Make that comes with Cygwin. If you do not want to
compile a program created with Visual Studio nmake is probably not what
you want.
>
> For example, you can use the compiler directly, such as
> "cl source1.c source2.c -o prog.exe".
> 'cl' is Visual Studio's compiler.
The variable compile-command holds the default command that is shown
when you run the Emacs compile command.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-20 21:43 UTC|newest]
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2005-10-20 21:26 ` Help-complete newcomer Colin S. Miller
2005-10-20 21:43 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-10-20 18:57 jtg579
2005-10-20 19:19 ` Edward O'Connor
2005-10-21 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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