This is DMAKE version 4.12 compiled for Win32 using MS VC++ 6. For information on how to use DMAKE, see man\dmake.nc. DMAKE needs a set of startup files that are located in a subdirectory called "startup" where DMAKE.EXE lives, or in a directory specified by a DMAKEROOT environment variable. So, to install it, just copy DMAKE.EXE and the startup subdirectory to some location on your path. You can change the default platform in the startup\config.mk file (the defaults, despite appearances, are set up for MS VC++ 6 on Windows NT/2000/XP etc.). If you change the defaults, you'll need to make sure the subdirectories you name in startup\config.mk are populated with setup files (you can use the current hierarchy as a model). The original sources of DMAKE were available from: http://dmake.wticorp.com but this site has not been reachable for some time. The sources are now hosted in the OpenOffice.org "tools" project, the home page for which is: http://tools.openoffice.org/ and details on the OpenOffice.org version of DMAKE can be found at: http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/ You can get the latest "stable" sources from: svn export http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/trunk/dmake dmake This version of DMAKE is compiled from sources taken from the above svn address on 07 Sep 2009 at 22:00 PM (UTC). You can get the same sources with the svn command: svn export -r {20090907T2200Z} http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/trunk/dmake dmake The file PATCH.TXT contains the changes that I made to those sources, namely, a change to the version string displayed by "dmake -V", plus a couple of other changes inspired by the changes made by Gurusamy Sarathy in his DMAKE 4.1 build which is available from: ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/ Enjoy! Steve Hay shay@cpan.org 07-Sep-2009