Re: [Mingw-users] Problem with mingw32-make - "multiple target patterns"

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jim Crews <ji...@ms...> wrote:

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> Thanks so much for your response.  As you may have guessed I'm new to this,
> but am trying to set everything up so I can begin learning some C and C++.
>
> I changed the variable name to INCLUDES (in case it conflicted with

That doesn't matter.

> something I didn't know about) and removed the -I.  Same problem.  I also
> tried the following formats for assigning the variable:
>
> INCLUDES = -I"c:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0"
> INCLUDES = -I'c:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0'
> INCLUDES = "c:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0"
> INCLUDES = c:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0
>

Ok, but ...

> which resulted in the same error.  If I change the path to exclude the c:
> then I get the "fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory"
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
>>
>> > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:16:42 -0500
>> > From: Jim Crews <ji...@ms...>
>> >
>> > I'm a first time user of this list so I hope I'm addressing it to the
>> > proper group.
>>
>> Actually, mak...@gn... is a better place.
>>
>> > I am trying to use the mingw32-make command on Windows 7, but receive an
>> > error every time stating "*** multiple target patterns".  I have no idea
>> > what this means and have spent many hours online trying to find a
>> > solution.
>> >
>> > My guess from everything I've read is that it has to do with the first
>> > line
>> > in my makefile:
>> >
>> > INC = -Ic:\GTK\include\gtk-2.0
>> >
>> > MAIN = graphictest
>> > OBJS = graphictest.o
>> >
>> > CC=gcc
>> > CFLAGS = -Wall -g
>> >
>> > $(MAIN): $(MAIN) $(OBJS) $(INC)

This is the real issue.  Expand the variables and you'll see that
$(INC) or $(INCLUDE) because it contains a : is causing make to look
at it as multiple targets instead of one target.  Remove the $(INC) or
$(INCLUDE) from this line and give it another try.

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