Re: [Dev-C++] Using Makefiles

[Glen V. <Gle...@pa...>]

"(did you search the mail archive?)" => I did now, and it's bookmarked 
:). No results though.
All messages to this group will be from now on text only, my apologies 
for that.

I already knew what your tutorial said, though its much more 
comprehensive than Bruce Eckels' explanation.
Its just that.. well... I can't get make to work.
Under linux it's just make install, make this, make that... and it 
always works. But under windows I'm a bit lost.

The documentation says to "make gcc" in the main directory. After 
inspecting the makefile I see it goes to every subdirectory:
"gcc:
    cd C02; make -f gcc.makefile
    cd C03; make -f gcc.makefile
    cd C04; make -f gcc.makefile... and so on"
The gcc.makefile's are probably 100% correct :) .
I tried copying everything from dev-cpp\bin to command and in the 
source-dir just calling "make gcc".
Also I tried calling "make 
D:\BACKUP\e-books\BruceEckel\TICPP-2nd-ed-Vol-one-code\C02 gcc" (also 
with backslashes converted to forward slashes).
I also tried every combination I could think of using c:\dev-cpp\bin\make
But always I get something like "nothing to be done for target...." or 
"no rule to make target" or something like that.

I guess it would be enough for someone who got it to work under windows 
to say how he calls make (or how he sets it up). I'm not stupid, just 
not used to dos :) .

Luigi Santillo wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:42:02PM +0100, Glen Vermeylen wrote
>to the list asking about how to use makefiles ... 
>
>
>Hi, Glen
>
>sorry for the strange quote, but my MUA doesn't cooperate with
>HTML mail too well. However, as for using Make, I've written a
>tiny tutorial some time ago (did you search the mail archive?), 
>it is found at the site:
>www.gisan.freeurl.com 
>
>It's more oriented to writing makefiles, but should get you
>started. 
>  
>