Documentation and Resources

Product Manuals and Release Notes

User Manuals, Release Notes and Man Pages for each release (also available from the corresponding release page).

General Help

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Newsletters

Published quarterly, the newsletters contain technical tips as well as the current happenings with the nmake product.

Tutorial: A Little Help with nmake

This tutorial is written for beginners and will help you learn about nmake without tackling difficult problems. When you finish, you will understand simple makefiles and have a background that will let you make good use of the user manuals.

Technical Topics

Using nmake with Eclipse

Information on using nmake with Eclipse.

Structured Build Logs

How to generate structured build logs such as XML tagged logs.

Support for Windows® platforms

References for using nmake on platforms based on Microsoft® Windows®.

Java Support

References for Java support and integration.

The -I- and prefixinclude Preprocessor Features

Specifications for the prefixinclude and -I- features used by nmake's cpp to support the viewpathing feature.

Tool Repository

A collection of tools for use with nmake including build analysis and diagnostic tools.

Reports and Visualizations

A summary of available build reports and visualizations with screen shots.

Explain Information

Details on the nmake "explain" option, information and related features.

Presentations/Viewgraphs

An Overview of the nmake Product Builder [PDF 665K]

High-level overview, suitable for evaluating the benefits which can be obtained by using nmake during product development. Targeted for build engineers, developers, technical managers, or anyone with an overall interest in nmakes capabilities.

What's New in nmake [PDF 387K]

An overview of newer enhancements and features as of Feb, 2011.

Alcatel-Lucent nmake Release lu3.2

From a presentation covering important nmake features and new features introduced in release lu3.2.