Re: Don't know how to make

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From: Bonj (Bonj_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:17:04 -0800

I know that - but it's just a source file and it *does* exist....

"Andy Sinclair" wrote:

> Bonj wrote:
> >But if I do "nmake clean" and then "nmake findwords.dll" it runs through
> >$(stringclassfiles) and successfully makes and deploys it, but then claims
> >"fatal error U1073 - don't know how to make 'vbscript.idl' ".
> >But I haven't told it to make this, I've told it that vbscript.idl is a
> >*dependency* of the build process for vbscript_i.obj. This is the bit I'm not
> >getting.
> When you specifying a dependency, make will look for a rule to make
> it. If it is not found, it will look for a file.
>
> The error means that make cannot find the file specified.
> If it is a file you edit, you may need to specify its location
> explicitly.
>
> Andy
>

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