Build Error using Watcom compiler

[joshux]

config.bat is set to:
set COMPILER=WATCOM

Error message:

[mulad]

I should have looked here before continuing to bang my head against this issue yesterday and today. I came to the same solution after hitting the error, swapping the order of the MMODEL variable definition and the !include line from:

!include "$(TOP)/config.mak"
MMODEL = $(FIXSTRS_MMODEL)

to:

MMODEL = $(FIXSTRS_MMODEL)
!include "$(TOP)/config.mak"

in the strings\strings.mak file. This allows -mc to be added into the watcomc.cfg file in that directory and override the usual setting:

C:\HOME\MIKE\DOWNLOAD\FREECOM\STRINGS>type watcomc.cfg
-os-s-wx
-IC:\DEVEL\OW\h -I..\suppl
-ms -mc
-UDEBUG -DNDEBUG

And to make this searchable, the build error message was:

C:\DEVEL\OW\BINW\wcc -zq -fo=.obj fixstrs.c -bt=dos @watcomc.cfg
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time  Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
fixstrs.c(163): Error! E1091: "This program must be compiled with far data pointers"
Error(E42): Last command making (fixstrs.obj) returned a bad status
Error(E02): Make execution terminated