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Re: make[4]: cl: Command not found

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 21:36 -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:
> When attempting to compile an application I recieved this error.
> 
> make[4]: cl: Command not found
> 
> Recognizing the line I'm either toeing or- more accurately- crossing
> the line between on- and offtopic here (I apologize) what is "cl?"

cl is Microsoft's command-line C/C++ compiler.  Whatever you are trying
to build is intended for MSVC, or mistakenly thinks that it should be
using MSVC on Cygwin.


Yaakov



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