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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:23:21 +0100
Alfred Alinazar wrote:
Ulf Lamping wrote:
I have MSVC 8.0 build 50727. I detest trying to use the M$ compiler
suite, but sometimes the alternatives are worse.
Do you use the Express Edition or the Studio?
Ulf,

I'm using MSVC 2005 Express edition.
I got the error message below after running "nmake -f Makefile.nmake all" at the command prompt (cmd.exe)
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Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        bison  -d -p ascend ascend-grammar.y -o ascend-grammar.c
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bison.EXE: m4: Invalid argument
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bison.EXE"' : return
code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\n
make.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
----------------------------------------------------------------

Looks like that the argument was invalid by Bison.

My version of Bison:
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bison (GNU Bison) 2.1
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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would you like to help ?

Hi Alfred!

That's unrelated to the MSVC things.

This seems to be a problem with your bison version (and I really don't have a lot of knowledge about bison).

The only thing I know is that the cygwin bison version (2.3) works well on my machines while you seem to use the GnuWin32 (Mingw?) version.

Please follow the tools recommendations from the Developer's Guide - that's what I've written it for ;-)

Regards, ULFL