Re: [Mingw-users] Makefile confusion.

[Joshua L. <ani...@ho...>]

I'll try this when I get home :)
Thanks everyone for the help, and that site Greg included is very 
interesting I'd recommend checking it out.
Joshua.






>From: Paul Whitfield <pa...@mi...>
>To: Joshua Little <ani...@ho...>
>CC: min...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Makefile confusion.
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:22:53 +0800
>
>Joshua Little wrote:
>>
>>After using VC++ for so long I'm slowly getting used to using the command 
>>line tools included in MinGW. I'm trying to get a makefile set up so that 
>>all I have to do add a new .o file to the ojects list (OBJS in the 
>>makefile) then put in a dependancy list. I would like to use a dependency 
>>list generator but I'm not sure if MinGW has that (maybe in the bintools? 
>>I haven't looked enough yet)but I assume that it does. So I have two 
>>questions. My original makefile bascially lists each target and its 
>>dependencies that I put in manually. Well as I start to add new classes 
>>I'm getting tired of adding everything manually. So I looked around and 
>>learned about pattern matching rules and dependancy generators. Please 
>>excuse the length of the post because I'm really trying to find out whats 
>>happening I'm going to post both makefiles. Heres the first that works 
>>just fine :
>
>Ahhh... the fun of makefiles ..
>
>You still need the cpp files in the list, make will not
>auto generate that for you
>
>Gcc is your friend
>
>gcc -M will output a dependency list for a file in
>the format to include in a makefile.
>
>(see also gcc -MM)
>
>something like this can be done
>This is basically, the minimalist
>makefile I can make with the
>features you are after.
>
>
>CC = gcc
>CCFLAGS = -g -Wall
>SRCS= main.c test.c
>
>all: thing
>
># Generate object list from source list
>OBJS = $(SRCS:.c=.o)
>
># make a target that depends on all objects
>thing: $(OBJS)
>	 $(CC) $(OBJS) -o $@.exe
>
># Create a depend file that is updated whenever a source file is edited
>.depend: $(SRCS) Makefile
>	$(CC) -MM $(SRCS) > .depend
>
># include the generated dependency list
>include .depend
>
>
>Hope that helps
>
>Best regards
>
>Paul


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