There you have it. We hope this brings a greater understanding and awareness to these two powerful operators. They should be some of the most commonly used tools in your nmake toolbox. These files typically use the file suffix .pc . There are no default nmake rules for handling .pc files.
Some projects create a custom rule to make a .o object file from the .pc .
However we recommend simply outputting a .c file an letting nmake's default rules do the rest of the work. Below is a sample metarule to make a .c file from a .pc . We also include the statements necessary to scan the .pc file for included files and to build a list of include directories to search. Some notes on the above. The .SCAN.F scanrule is already defined in nmake's Scanrules.mk, no need to define the scanrule yourself.