testing nmV / build2.bat file

From: "Paul Hutson" <prh@pharmacy.wisc.edu> Subject: testing nmV / build2.bat file Date: 10 Jul 1998 11:19:04 -0400 This may be old news to everyone but me, but I thought I'd post it in case it proved useful to novices like me...I am using a Pentium 133MHz machine running NT 4.0 and Digital Visual Basic. I had difficulty getting the build2.bat file to create an executable file (pk1.exe) when testing the PREDPP as suggested on page 47 of Part III of the USERS GUIDE. I revised the batch file as indicated below, and it worked well. In brief, I removed the compile only switch (" /c"), changed two path variables from %n% to %ndir%, and for elegance added the "/exe:nonmem.exe" to rename pk1.exe to nonmem.exe on the same line. rem BUILD2.BAT set ndir=c:\nmv\nm set n=%ndir%\nonmem.obj %ndir%\blkdat.obj %ndir%\nonmem.lib df /optimize:1 /fpe:0 pk1.for error1.for @build2.lnk %n% /exe:nonmem.exe Paul Hutson, Pharm.D. Associate Professor (CHS) UW School of Pharmacy 425 N. Charter St Madison, WI 53706 (608) 263-2496 FAX 265-5421

From: alison@c255.ucsf.EDU (ABoeckmann) Subject: Re: testing nmV Date: 10 Jul 1998 14:28:20 -0400 Thanks, Paul, for finding these mistakes in Guide III. The PowerStation example in the same box on page 47 also contains an incorrect %n% (instead of %ndir%) twice on the second line. Most people use the shortcut SETUP.BAT to install NONMEM, as described in Appendix 5, rather than installing and testing in a step by step manner, and will never run into these documentation mistakes. Note that "/exe:nonmem.exe" is the Digital version of the Powerstation option "/Fenonmem.exe". The Digital compiler recognizes both. In NMFE5.BAT, on the diskettes, we use the option "/Fenonmem.exe" because it works for both Powerstation and Digital compilers. -- Alison Boeckmann