Thank you for your replies.
I have tried to run nmake from the command line as suggested... without success.
Here is the script in my make file, tGenesisi_lib.mak...
!include <win32.mak>
targets:$(TSTUDIO3D7)\lib\tGenesisi.lib
$(TSTUDIO3D7)\lib\tGenesisi.lib:$(TSTUDIO3D7)\tGenesis3D\ReleaseDLL\ramdll.obj $(TSTUDIO3D7)\lib\tGenesis.lib
$(LINK) -out:$(TSTUDIO3D7)\lib\tGenesisi.lib $(TSTUDIO3D7)\tGenesis3D\ReleaseDLL\ramdll.obj $(TSTUDIO3D7)\lib\tGenesis.lib
My command line input...
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin>nmake $(TSTUDIO3D7)\tGenesis3D\tGenesisi_lib.mak
the console output...
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.30319.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don
Stop.
My confusion persists because according to msdn docs on this error, nmake cannot find the target -- but that is what I am trying to ... make. So obviously I have something very wrong.
Sorry to appeal here. The msdn help used to have useful examples of code and script. I can't seem to find those examples anymore with MSVS10. Help now at msdn is mostly abstract, with very few examples of implementation.