Esteemed Monks,

My Win32 Perl/Tk application refuses to lie down and is getting bigger and bigger. It now has a total of four separate .exe's which I produce using ActiveState PerlApp - I have written a little Perl script which handles part of this.

But before I jump off the deep end I had a late night flash - why not use MAKE? Given that I am on Win32, possibly Microsofts NMAKE. I already use it for building 'C' applications for microcontrollers - but is it considered 'still state-of-the art' for what I am proposing?

I need to:

• Make sure all the files exist
• Run four passes through PerlApp (each with different command line options)
• Run a final PerlApp that packs the four exe's and some dll's into a single exe.
• Run a NSIS Installer compile session
• Upload files to a server using ftp.

Or should I just write a Perl script that will do everything ? Any other suggestions?

jdtoronto

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