From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16456 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2012 22:10:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 16445 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2012 22:10:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_BF X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-vw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.212.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:09:51 +0000 Received: by vbbfn1 with SMTP id fn1so16501558vbb.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:09:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.173.211 with SMTP id bm19mr16849863vdc.2.1325714990309; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:09:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.112.42 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:09:29 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan Rajlich Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: How to compile on Windows? To: libffi-discuss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00000.txt.bz2 Hello all, 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. 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. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!