#137 Project Won't Build With Makefile Open in Dev-C++ Editor

[Matthew MacGregor]

Version: 5.7.1 w TDD-GCC 4.8.1
OS version: Windows 8.1 64 bit
Error reported:

Makefile.win file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2.exe [Error] ld returned 1 exit status

Affects: C/C++ Projects
Stack trace: None
Steps needed to reproduce the problem:

• Open the Makefile.win in the Dev-C++ editor.
• Attempt to build the project.

This is especially tricky since the Makefile now opens automatically when there's an error parsing it. If you resolve the original error but leave the Makefile open in Dev-C++, the project will continue to issue errors even if the Makefile.win is now valid syntactically.

[orwelldevcpp]

As of 5.8.0, the makefile is now recognised as a file that belongs to the project:

function TMainForm.GetCompileTarget: TTarget;
(...)

// Treat makefiles as InProject files too
if Assigned(fProject) and (e.InProject or (fProject.MakeFileName = e.FileName)) then begin
  Result := ctProject;
end else begin
  Result := ctFile;
end;