Help-complete newcomer

Help-complete newcomer

[jtg579]

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I have just installed emacs on Windows ME and am attempting to compile my first program.  I did the M-x, got the make-k prompt and put in the file name but get an error message-'Bad Command or Filename'.  I am not very familiar with UNIX and makefile, I would just like to do some codework for now.  Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
                                                                        Sincerely 
                                                                         Jack G.

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Re: Help-complete newcomer

[Edward O'Connor]

jtg wrote:

> I did the M-x, got the make-k prompt and put in the file name but get
> an error message-'Bad Command or Filename'.

It sounds like you don't have Make installed. It doesn't come with
Windows by default, so you'll have to install it yourself.


Ted

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Re: Help-complete newcomer

[Colin S. Miller]

jtg579@netzero.net wrote:
> I have just installed emacs on Windows ME and am attempting to compile 
> my first program.  I did the M-x, got the make-k prompt and put in the 
> file name but get an error message-'Bad Command or Filename'.  I am not 
> very familiar with UNIX and makefile, I would just like to do some 
> codework for now.  Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>                                                                         
> Sincerely
> 
>                                                                          
> Jack G.
> 
Emacs is not prompting you for which source file you want to compile.
Instead, it is prompting you for the command to run that does the compile.


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.

However,
you need not use a makefile should you wish not to.

For example, you can use the compiler directly, such as
"cl source1.c source2.c -o prog.exe".
'cl' is Visual Studio's compiler.

You can also also create a batch file listing the compiler instructions.

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Re: Help-complete newcomer

[Lennart Borgman]

> 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.

Re: Help-complete newcomer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "jtg579@netzero.net" <jtg579@netzero.net>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:57:40 GMT
> 
> I have just installed emacs on Windows ME and am attempting to compile my first program.  I did the M-x, got the make-k prompt and put in the file name but get an error message-'Bad Command or Filename'.  I am not very familiar with UNIX and makefile, I would just like to do some codework for now.  Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Make sure the directory where you have make.exe is included in your
PATH variable.