Re: What is NMAKE.exe used for?

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:21:47 +0000 (UTC), "Matt" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>nmake is just a utility used to invoke the assembler, compiler, and linker
>as necessary to build your program. To make it faster, it is able to skip
>recompiling/reassembling files which haven't changed. There are a dozen
>different variants on the idea, and nmake happens to be Microsoft's

insert >"most recent"

>implementation. Makefiles are always compulsary in the same way that source
>repositories are: you don't need it to create software, but larger projects
>are impossible to engineer without it.

Before 'nmake' (New Make) there was 'make'. Last seen about 1988.

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