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Reputation: 11704

nmake.exe keeps complaining about flags I'm not giving it. (U1065)

When I run nmake.exe from make I get this error:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'

But I'm not passing in '-' as an option anyplace.

If I run the same command from outside of make it works correctly.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 5030

Answers (4)

Hiren Namera
Hiren Namera

Reputation: 424

just use , it will set MAKEFLAGS Empty set MAKEFLAGS=

Upvotes: 0

Mizux
Mizux

Reputation: 9301

Supposing you are on a windows prompt command, and you have a rule like that: 

 target:
   cd ... && nmake.exe ...

by

 target:
   cd ... && set MAKEFLAGS= && nmake.exe ...

set FOO: display the value of FOO if exist, (like echo %FOO%)

set FOO=: unset FOO, (i.e. later call to set FOO will display Environment variable FOO not defined)

note: there is no unset command

Upvotes: 1

Doni Yusdinar
Doni Yusdinar

Reputation: 1

if you use windows, simply go to Enviroment Variables in advance system setting and delete system variables "MAKEFLAGS". It should not confuse Nmake anymore.

Upvotes: 0

docwhat
docwhat

Reputation: 11704

The problem is that the environment variables MAKE and MAKEFLAGS are set by make. These are confusing nmake.exe.

To fix this, just prefix your call to nmake.exe with env -u MAKE -u MAKEFLAGS

Example:

 some-make-target:
      env -u MAKE -u MAKEFLAGS nmake.exe /a /l

Upvotes: 12

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