[Build Error] No rule to make target `all'.

[Blasz]

I know it must be annoying for the forum regulars to answer what appears to be
a common question, but when I search this topic, its extremely time consuming
to find the answer as when you search each reply comes up as a separate
thread.

Anyway, first time using dev-c++ and I wanted to compile something which
compiled on lcc-win32.

I set up the project and then click compile and this is my compiler log.

Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\enemy_click\Makefile.win"
Executing make...
make.exe -f "C:\enemy_click\Makefile.win" all
make.exe: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.

Execution terminated

Any help, much appreciated.

Thanks.

[cpns]

its extremely time consuming to find the answer

The important difference however is that it is your time being consumed, not
someone else's. Tour faint apology reings hollow since what you are actually
saying is "I don't want to waste my time so I'll waste yours". That is
unfortunate because in fact your question is otherwise not unreasonable, and
you could have just asked it without the preamble.

One thing you could have looked at is the "read first" thread which requests
that you post the Dev-C++ version you are using.

Whatever the problem it it appears to be in the generated makefile.win file
which appears to be malformed. It may be possible to determine what has
happened if you post the content of that. However you appear to be attempting
to directly compile a single source file without using a project. I strongly
suggest that you do use a project, even for single source file builds,
otherwise your code will be built with whatever the prevailing Dev-C++
settings are rather that the ones you need for that specific code. Apart from
anything else, using a project file will force the regeneration of the
makefile.

Something else that you might try is simply deleting makefile.win to force it
to be regenerated.