From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23096 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2012 22:59:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 23086 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2012 22:59:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_BF X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173019pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:59:07 +0000 Received: from [172.16.0.198] ([unknown] [108.20.111.157]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LXA006HXQI0GXF0@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for libffi-discuss@sourceware.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:58:53 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: How to compile on Windows? MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Timothy Wall In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:59:00 -0000 Cc: libffi-discuss Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <5FD07A30-7023-4D32-A38C-3741C88BC0F5@users.sf.net> References: To: Nathan Rajlich Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Are you trying to compile with MSVC or gcc/mingw? Regardless of compiler, I doubt you'll be able to get "nmake" to work on co= nfigure-generated makefiles; you'll need either cygwin or MSYS-based make. On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Nathan Rajlich wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > I am attempting to compile libffi on windows, and am having some > trouble. I was able to figure out how to get the "configure" step to > work by using the provided example in the README. The configure step > completed successfully and the necessary .h and Makefiles were > created. >=20 > Now when I try to invoke 'nmake', it quits quickly with an error > saying "Illegal '\' character in macro. Quitting." or something along > those lines, and I'm not sure where to take it from here. >=20 > Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!