• "dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> Mar 28 2005
• "dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> Mar 28 2005
• "Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> Mar 28 2005
• Scott Michel <scottm aero.org> Mar 29 2005

"dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> writes:

Hi,
I'm new to Digital Mars, and am working with the free download (I'm waiting
for my CD).

Windows ME.

While compiling, I get an the error stating my command line was too long. I
guess this is related to my operating system.

Do the tools on the CD (in particular smake) allow one to use longer command
lines than the tools in the free download? Or, will I be stuck with this
problem because I am using ME?


Also, briefly, what are the main differences between smake and make?

Thanks,
Doug

"dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> writes:

 Do the tools on the CD (in particular smake) allow one to use longer


 lines than the tools in the free download? Or, will I be stuck with this
 problem because I am using ME?


(if the error was coming from the linker). I'll check and try that.

 Also, briefly, what are the main differences between smake and make?

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:d29r0q$2t69$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Also, briefly, what are the main differences between smake and make?


smake is compatible with Microsoft's nmake. make is simpler, smaller, and
faster.

Scott Michel <scottm aero.org> writes:

Walter wrote:
 "dt" <tinkham ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
 news:d29r0q$2t69$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 
Also, briefly, what are the main differences between smake and make?


 
 smake is compatible with Microsoft's nmake. make is simpler, smaller, and
 faster.


smake has more features that one would expect from a fully featured make 
system, whereas make is barebones. For the Eclipse plug-in, I decided to 
rely on smake rather than make because smake has better support for 
implicit compile rules (the ".c.obj" variety).