Re: Make and .exe Files

Brian White wrote:
>>I notice you were unable to answer the question of who would fix all the
>>Debian makefiles to accommodate ".exe". Without which, the project is
>>never going to work on any significant scale.
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity...  How about a simple hack.
> 
>  - build everything as per normal
>  - create links from .exe versions to the real files as part of the
>    packaging process
> 
> I'm new with CygWin...  Can't remember if it will execute files without
> a .exe extension.
> 

At least on NT you can execute a program without a .exe suffix but if 
you create a non executable file name such as a .lnk file then you're 
liable to crash the OS.  I.E.: If you ``ln -s foo foo.exe'' what is 
created in reality is foo.exe.lnk and when you try to execute that, it 
won't work.

Earnie.