The dependancies for the various builds (release, release-ssl, debug) are
wrong too.

I fixed the Makefile for the lib/ directory because I only needed
libcurl. It's attached.

If you need a fixed Makefile for curl proper, I can provide that too.

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Pierre Bernatchez wrote:
>
> (Cross-posted for informational purposes)
>
> Would anyone like to become a Makefile.vc6 maintainer?
>
> > > I downloaded the fulll source zip file, followed the install instrunctions.
> >
> > Attempting to rebuild libcurl using the recommended: nmake -f Makefile.vc6.
> > the makefile failed with the error "don't know how to make writeout.c.
>
> Curl is not actively developed on windows. I depend on help from friends to
> make sure the windows stuff works. Jörg Hartroth does a lovely job with
> maintaining the makefile for mingw32 compiles under windows (those are used
> to create the windows binaries I offer from the curl site). The VC++
> Makefiles haven't been updated for a very long while and they're not
> up-to-date with how the rest of curl works.
>
> Someone needs to update those Makefiles before they'll be usable. I might
> removed them completely from the next release unless someone friendly soul
> provides corrections.
>
> Personally, I don't use windows, I don't program windows, I don't have VC++.
>
> > Any help resolving this problem will be welcome.
>
> Make sure the source files in the lib/ dir are all mentioned objects in the
> lib/Makefile.vc6 file. writeout.c is wrongly still included in the object
> lists. (I hate the fact all objects are mentioned *four* times in that
> makefile)
>
> You'll probably also notice that the src/makefile.vc6 file misses the
> urlglob.c and writeout.c files from the object lists.
>
> > If it would be useful, i'd be perfectly happy to server as the test site
> > for that build configuration.
>
> For windows testing, we're still at the stage in which we need to change the
> perl test scripts so they run on windows as well. A windows-perl programmer
> should probably be capable of helping out there!
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
>