Re: [AD] msvcmake is broken

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Igor Gnip wrote:
[snip]

It does work under dos/windows 95/98/ME
but  can you confirm it will work in future dos versions ?  (i mean
cmd.exe from win2k or WinXP)


It works under Win2k and XP.

Henrik Stokseth wrote:
> no. cat is a part of gnu textutils IIRC, this 'problem' can be fixed
> simply by installing it.
> alternatively you can edit misc/zipwin.sh line 137 and replace 'cat' with
> something else.

The idea is to not require DJGPP to be able to build Allegro with MSVC.
After all, if we require textutils, why not throw in make, gcc, and all the rest?

The documentation is already available on-line. We could just provaide a zip with the docs in various formats.


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