buildmac by Dan Allen

[jamie marchant]

I came across some source code that said it could be built with "buildmac" by Dan Allen, have you every heard of this? 

 

[pcamen]

I just checked my site and there are no references to "buildmac" (one word) in the books I've got there.  But there is one book by Dan Allen:

https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/pdf/On_Macintosh_Programming_Advanced_Techniques_1990.pdf

 

[Dog Cow]

I came across some source code that said it could be built with "buildmac" by Dan Allen, have you every heard of this? 

Do you have a date for that source code, or at least a year?

 

[jamie marchant]

The README says Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997 it is for MAWK(the AWK Programming Language", the full text says: 

This is also said to compile on Macintosh OS 9 systems, using the
file "buildmac" provided by Dan Allen (danallen@microsoft.com),
to whom many thanks.

 

[uyjulian]

Try e-mailing that person.

 

[Dog Cow]

Dan Allen, author of the above-mentioned book, used to work at Apple back in the 1980s. Are we sure this is the same guy as mentioned in that README?