DMake was written by Matt Dillon to provide a Make-like tool for his DICE product. DICE - Dillon's Interactive C Environment - was a C compiler and tool suite for Commodore Amiga computers in the 1980s and 1990s. In its later years it was open-sourced, albeit with a non-standard "no commercial use" license.

In October 2023, Matt generously relicensed DICE and DMake under the well-known BSD license, and I have uploaded it to this repository.

Matt describes DMake as follows:

This is the DMAKE application, now called "dxmake" to avoid confusion with the "dmake" package which has nothing to do with my dmake. This is currently needed to compile up the DICE suite (though I expect anyone who really cares will redo the DICE suite to use bsd make or gmake).

This repository was created by Richard Downer and I intend to maintain this and modernise it on an occasional basis. I can be contacted at [email protected].