On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Brian Raven wrote:
> > Is there a 64-bit version of nmake available? If there's not, can
> > anyone recommend a version of make for Windows? From previous
> > experience, make under cygwin isn't applicable.
>
> Why do you need a 64 bit version of nmake? Surely the 64 bit OS can
> run 32 bit programs?

Yes, it can. The problem is that the old nmake15.exe is a 16 bit
program, and those are no longer supported by 64 bit Windows.

The nmake.exe from VC6 is a 32 bit program, but it cannot be freely
downloaded.

Of course you can get free 32 bit and 64 bit versions of nmake when you
install the Windows SDK, but it is *huge* (my installation of the
Windows SDK is about 1.3GB). I'm sure you can then just copy the
nmake.exe out to your own directory and uninstall the SDK, but this
sounds like an extreme measure (and big download).

dmake.exe from CPAN should work just fine with ActivePerl though, and
should also work on 64 bit Windows. Let me know if it doesn't.

Cheers,
-Jan


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