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"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:18:37 -0500

Hi Andrew,

Thanks very much for figuring this out.

Once I removed that rule from RULES_BUILD then I was able to build EPICS
modules using the latest MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe with no problems.  I
tested on both win32-x86 and windows-x64.

So both GnuWin make and MinGW "make" now work fine with that change.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 4:57 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]; Benjamin Franksen; Matt Newville
Subject: Re: "make" for Windows 7 64-bit

Hi Mark,

On 2011-06-06 Mark Rivers wrote:
> And I just made sure that this problem is not confined to the seq
snapshot,
>  this problem of treating C files as C++ file happens in other EPICS
>  modules as well.

Hmm, I see one possibility: Edit configure/RULES_BUILD and comment out
this 
pattern rule on lines 208-211:

%$(OBJ): %.C
	@$(HDEPENDS_CMD)
	@$(RM) $@
	$(COMPILE.cpp) $(call PATH_FILTER,$<) $(COMPILE_FILTER.cpp)

That's using an upper-case letter C in the source pattern, which was one
of 
the Unix conventions for C++ code which is useless on Windows and MacOS
X.  I 
don't think we need that rule any more, so I think it we can remove it
if 
necessary.

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
-- Roger Needham

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