nmake problems while building mysql driver

[MarkoSan]

I've installed qt and if qt weren't configured for my compiler, my application simply would not have compile at all. The problem is, if I run nmake solo, without anything, I get same error as if I run configure or start build process of mysql driver.

[wysota]

I've installed qt and if qt weren't configured for my compiler, my application simply would not have compile at all.

I'm talking about the sources, not the binaries.

The problem is, if I run nmake solo, without anything, I get same error as if I run configure or start build process of mysql driver.

So please tell me did you configure the sources for msvc 2005? As far as I remember the "-platform win32-msvc2005" (or something like that) switch may be required if Qt can't determine your configuration on its own. Also please try running "qmake" before running nmake, maybe it just needs to regenerate some Makefile. Did you by any chance modified any of the project files?

[MarkoSan]

I'm talking about the sources, not the binaries.



So please tell me did you configure the sources for msvc 2005? As far as I remember the "-platform win32-msvc2005" (or something like that) switch may be required if Qt can't determine your configuration on its own. Also please try running "qmake" before running nmake, maybe it just needs to regenerate some Makefile. Did you by any chance modified any of the project files?

Listen, if I run nmake in the directory where no makefiles are I still get same error. I cannot recompile sources because configure exists with same error!

[wysota]

What happens if you create a Makefile with the following contents:

all:
<tabulator here>echo "blabla"
<empty line here>

and run nmake?

[MarkoSan]

I still get:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'
Stop.

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'
Stop.

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I think nmake gets fucked up by applying that KB930859. Becuase there is a problem compiling qt apps with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. After I applied this KB930859 on Service Pack 1 my nmake got fucked up! I contaced MS but still no answer!!!!

[wysota]

I doubt the patch did anything to your nmake. The problem concerned the compiler, not the make tool.

[MarkoSan]

But make is part of compiler, isn't it?

[wysota]

No. It's shipped with it, but not part of it, so I doubt the patch even touched it

[MarkoSan]

Does anyone have any idea how to check the correctness of nmake?

[wysota]

Run nmake in a directory that doesn't have a Makefile. It should complain about it.

[MarkoSan]

I did, same error reported!!

[wysota]

nmake seems fine. The error you get is not unusual.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-10/msg00311.html

What is unusual is that nmake manages to find a makefile when it's not there. Could you check if the nmake you call is really a nmake binary and not some script? Because it behaves like it was accessing the same faulty makefile all the time. You might need to adjust your %PATH% to make sure the proper nmake is used.

Could you also verify that nmake /HELP returns a list of options and not the error you're battling with? Also please try running nmake with the "/R" option - if your tools.ini is broken, using this option should make nmake work by ignoring all configuration from tools.ini.

See this for referece: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...50(VS.80).aspx