From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T10:44:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25235] RE:  Compiling Ruby with VC++ - Makefile problems

Offhand, I've seen similar errors when the make file has spaces where there should be tabs, or where there is a : where WIndows
expects ;

James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Mason [mailto:ralph.mason@telogis.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:25216] Compiling Ruby with VC++ - Makefile problems
>
>
> When compiling ruby with vc++ as per the instructions I get a complaition
> error in the generated makefile for some of the extensions.
>
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
>
>         set LIB=../..;T:\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;T:\Microsoft
> Visual Studio\VC98\lib
> compiling curses
> compiling dbm
> compiling etc
> compiling fcntl
> Makefile:29: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> It seems that that line is
> @SET_MAKE@
>
> I really only know the simplest things about make files being isoloate from
> them by IDE's mostly.  I can manage a simple one to compile a few things
> with gcc and thats about it.  I think this looks like an autoconf thing.
>
> I could probably get to the bottom of this but it would probably take me
> some time.   Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> Thank
>