Rich,
Do I need to setup some environment variables for NMAKE to just "do the right thing"?
The HELP, INCLUDE, INIT, and LIB environment variables should be set. The fractint specific variables are set up in the macro files macros_d and macros_w.
If I manually go into the common folder and do
nmake /f common.mak
then everything builds except parser.c and parserfp.c [...]
Also, if I just attempt
nmake /f fractint.mak
from the top-level, then it says it can't find port.h when it compiles the stuff in common. I don't understand the problem there....
I have a vague recollection of this. It has to do with the environment you are running in and how the recursion used by nmake is handled. Hmm, that doesn't sound so vague, does it? 8-)) How do you get to the command prompt? Do you run command.com or cmd.exe? Under XP, I use a shortcut to cmd.exe where I have edited the start directory to point to my top level fractint directory. If you are using Win98, that could be a problem (no cmd.exe). Jonathan