Parameters For Compiling Mith Nmake

[kroko]

Only a 'simple' question using the HDK (under Windows). What are the command line options for compiling with nmake? I can't find any example.

nmake ... SOP_Parent.c ???

Excuse me but I have no experience with the nmake-utility...

Thanks kroko - a newbie

[edward]

I just tried this and here's what I found.

First, the Makefile.win file is missing the system includes. So you need to first modify it to include the PlatformSDK stuff like so:

SYSLIBINC = -LIBPATH:$(MSVCDir)/lib -LIBPATH:$(MSVCDir)/PlatformSDK/lib
INCINC = $(INCDIRS) -I$(HFS)/toolkit/include -I$(HFS)/custom/include -I$(MSVCDir)/include -I$(MSVCDir)/PlatformSDK/include

So now where you have your HDK file, you need to create a file named Makefile with something like this:

DSONAME = SOP_Star.dll
SOURCES = SOP_Star.C
!INCLUDE $(HFS)/toolkit/makefiles/Makefile.nmake

Now to compile, you can just invoke nmake with no command line arguments:

nmake

You probably want to modifiy Makefile.win so that it copies the created .dll to $HOME/houdini8.0/dso as well though or else you will have to manually do this after compiling for Houdini to pick it up.

[kroko]

I just tried this and here's what I found.

First, the Makefile.win file is missing the system includes. So you need to first modify it to include the PlatformSDK stuff like so:

SYSLIBINC = -LIBPATH:$(MSVCDir)/lib -LIBPATH:$(MSVCDir)/PlatformSDK/lib
INCINC = $(INCDIRS) -I$(HFS)/toolkit/include -I$(HFS)/custom/include -I$(MSVCDir)/include -I$(MSVCDir)/PlatformSDK/include

So now where you have your HDK file, you need to create a file named Makefile with something like this:

DSONAME = SOP_Star.dll
SOURCES = SOP_Star.C
!INCLUDE $(HFS)/toolkit/makefiles/Makefile.nmake

Now to compile, you can just invoke nmake with no command line arguments:

nmake

You probably want to modifiy Makefile.win so that it copies the created .dll to $HOME/houdini8.0/dso as well though or else you will have to manually do this after compiling for Houdini to pick it up.

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[kroko]

Thanks for your tips. All works fine but at least I get this error:

!IFNDEF OPTIMIZER

OPTIMIZER = -Ox

!ENDIF

!IFDEF MSVCDIR

MSVCDir = $(MSVCDIR)

!ENDIF

!INCLUDE c:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.410/toolkit/makefiles/Makefile.win

OBJECTS = $(SOURCES:.C=.o)

CC = $(CC:/=\)

LINK = $(LINK:/=\)

!IFDEF DSONAME

.C.o:

echo Compiled on: > taginfo

date /T >> taginfo

time /T >> taginfo

echo by: %USERNAME%@%COMPUTERNAME% >> taginfo

!IFDEF SESI_TAGINFO

echo $(SESI_TAGINFO) >> taginfo

!ENDIF

c:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.410/bin/sesitag -c -f taginfo > tagdefines

$(CC) $(OBJFLAGS) -DMAKING_DSO @tagdefines $< $(OBJOUTPUT)$@

del taginfo tagdefines

$(DSONAME): $(OBJECTS)

$(LINK) $(SHAREDFLAG) $(OBJECTS) $(DSOFLAGS) $(DSOOUTPUT)$@

!ENDIF

!IFDEF APPNAME

.C.o:

$(CC) $(OBJFLAGS) $< $(OBJOUTPUT)$@

$(APPNAME): $(OBJECTS)

$(LINK) $(OBJECTS) $(SAFLAGS) $(SAOUTPUT)$@

!ENDIF

************* HERE COMES THE ERROR ***********

all: $(DSONAME) $(APPNAME)

************* ERROR MESSAGE ******************

NMAKE (39) fatal error U1077: 'C:\Program' return code '0x1'

**********************************************

clean:

del /F /Q $(OBJECTS) $(APPNAME) $(DSONAME)

It seems that there is a problem with the variable $(APPNAME)

Any Idea ?

Thanks kroko...

[edward]

What is your MSVCDIR or MSVCDir environment variables set to? It can't contain spaces. You should be setting them to the short version of the path.

[kroko]

What is your MSVCDIR or MSVCDir environment variables set to? It can't contain spaces. You should be setting them to the short version of the path.

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Thanks now it works fine!

kroko