> Julien Fischer <juliensf@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> 
> > Julien Fischer wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> > >
> > > > I attempted to build Mercury 0.12.0 with MS VisualC (Visual C++ 
> Toolkit
> > > > 2003, .NET SDK 1.1), using the instructions given in 
> README.MS-VisualC.
> > It
> > > > failed trying to build the Boehm GC.  Following is some of the 
> output.
> > It
> > > > seems to be failing because the expected file ntwin32.mak is not 
> there.
> > Any
> > > > ideas why this might be the case?
> > > >
> > >
> > > No, although you may want to try the rotd rather than 0.12.0 since 
> the
> > > former uses a more recent version of the Boehm collector.
> >
> > When was the last time the VisualC compiler was tested?
> 
> Definitely in 2002, since then I'm not sure - the last substantial
> changes committed regarding Visual C were committed in 2004, so
> presmuably then.
> 
> > Looking in the cvs repository, it seems that,
> > checking out now,
> > one, two, three and four years ago, ntwin32.mak was required by 
> NT_MAKFILE
> > and was not there.  I also see that there has never been an 
> ntwin32.mak, as
> > it is not in the directory or the attic.  The line also seems to have 
> been
> > commented out of the Makefile at some times.
> >
> 
> ntwin32.mak is part of (or at least provided with) the windows SDK.
> 

Fair enough.  I don't have that, so I suppose I should get it.

Jon
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