Re: DOCS: revising LM "Score and Parts"

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/22/09 3:18 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>> Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>>> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>>>>> This is a good idea, Carl.  I wouldn't mind trying it myself. My son's
>>>>> laptop has XP on one partition but I don't know if I'll be able to get
>>>>> on there and try this out.  I'd be a good one to try it, though,
>>>>> because
>>>>> I'm totally clueless on Windows, and if I can get it working then
>>>>> anybody could. :)
>>>> 
>>>> I think you'd be perfect, Jon, because
>>>> a) You are interested
>>>> b) You know the makefile
>>>> c) You don't know Windows
>>>> 
>>>> Carl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Initial efforts are fruitless.  I installed GNUMake on the XP
>>> partition, but when I type the command "make" in the dos shell, it
>>> says there's no such program.  I tried "Make" and "make.exe" as well
>>> with the same results.  I have no idea what to try next because
>>> there's hardly anything about running it on Windows in the
>>> documentation.  I'll check more on it later.  I find it exhausting
>>> even to spend a few minutes using Windows...
>>> 
>> It sounds as if you have to include it in PATH environment variable
>> (Right click on "My Computer", choose the Advanced tab and click on
>> Environment variables). I'm sure you know more than most Windows users
>> about how to set PATH, just remember to use semicolon instead of comma
>> to separate the paths.
>> 
>>   /Mats
>>> Jon
>> 
>> 
> I suspected a PATH issue and found this solution on a website somewhere
> and did it.  Now I can run the "make" command, but it's telling me
> there's no rule for the target I selected.  I know very well that
> there's a rule since it works perfectly on Linux, so I'm going to try
> simplifying it to see if I can make it run.

You may want to make sure you have the right make:

which make

make --version


Carl