I have an old project for which I'm trying to create a multiple binaries, one for each object in the directory. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to deal with multiple targets in this manner. The following works, but it seems to me I should be able to have one rule to link them all, so to speak,
# compile objects, no problem
%.o: %.c
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $< -o $#
bin: bin.o
$(CC) -o $# $< ../lib/libfoo.a -lm $(ARCH)
bar: bar.o
$(CC) -o $# $< ../lib/libfoo.a -lm $(ARCH)
One approach that I did get to work is to strip off the suffix from the target name like this, and compile and link in one step, but it feels a little hackish,
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $< ../lib/libfoo.a -lm -o $(*F)
Disclaimer: I despise make
UPDATE 1: this is what I ended up with
EXECS = bin bar ...
all: $(EXECS)
%: %.c
#echo "Building $# from $<"
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $< -o $#.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $#.o ../lib/libfoo.a -lm -o $#
The convention is to have something like this at the top of your Makefile:
.PHONY: all
all: bin bar
Thus make all will make bin and bar, and by putting it at the top it's the default target for make without arguments. The .PHONY: documents this as a "metatarget", but also instructs Make to run it even if there happens to be a file called all with a fresh datestamp.
%: %.o
$(CC) -o $# $< ../lib/libfoo.a -lm $(ARCH)
This tells Make how to make them both.
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%.o: %.c $(PROOT)/include/curl/curlbuild.h
$(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $#
I would like to know the meaning of the percentage symbol in this situation, I am triing to compile curl 7.49.1. Thanks by advance.
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I have a line line in make file for compiling a c program, which goes like this
$(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS). I have to modify a particular line in code every time and compile again. Modification is just an argument to a function. I have the argument in one file and i use sed utility to modify my c source and then compile. I want to see which of the arguements leads to successful compilation. I tried to use this $(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS) ; echo $? >status where I was hoping if compilation was successful status file would have an entry 0. But i see the source file name in status file. I came to know that $? is also a make automatic variable. How can i read the shell variable $? within makefile ? I have tried using $(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS) ; echo $$? >status and $(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS) ; echo $(shell echo $?) >status without getting correct results.
The version
echo $$? > status
definitely works for me. What OS are you using? What are the incorrect results when using $$??
If you are on Windows, there is no $?, you might want ot use %errorlevel% instead.
I have a directory with dozens of source and header files. Is there a better or cleaner way than the following %.o target for make to detect changes to header files? When the object is compiled, g++ is invoked with both the .cc and .h files which doesn't seem right, it should find the .h file automatically.
%.o: %.cc %.h
g++ -c $^
OBJECTS=headless-driver.o config.o simplefm2.o emulator.o basis-util.o objective.o weighted-objectives.o motifs.o util.o
learnfun : $(OBJECTS) learnfun.o
g++ $^ -o $#
%.o: %.cc %.h
g++ -c $^
You are specifying $^ which expands to all dependencies. If you just want the first dependency on the Gcc command line, use $< instead.
I have a Makefile that compiles, but I want to change the name of one of the directories from "release" to "objects". This is the original Makefile -
# This makefile compiles ....
INCLUDE = -I/usr/include/X11 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/FL/images -I/usr/include/freetype2
CC=g++
CFLAGS=-w -D LINUX -O3 -fpermissive
OBJDIR=release # HERE IS THE DIRECTORY I WANT TO CHANGE
SRCDIR=src
LDFLAGS= -L/usr/X11R6/lib$(LIBSELECT) -lpthread -lfltk -lXext -lXft -lfontconfig -lXinerama -lpthread -ldl -lm -lX11
SOURCES_RAW= robot_driver_agent.cpp robot_driver_position.cpp robot_driver_priorityqueue.cpp main.cpp robot_driver_tree.cpp robot_driver_stack.cpp robot_driver_grid.cpp robot_driver_path.cpp grid_analyzer.cpp tcpserver.cpp tcpclient.cpp servercontrol.cpp clientcontrol.cpp robot.cpp udpserver.cpp udpclient.cpp owncontrol.cpp guiwindow.cpp rs232.cpp
TARGET:= go
TARGETD:= go_d
OBJECTS:=$(SOURCES_RAW:.cpp=.o)
OBJECTS:=$(patsubst %.o, $(OBJDIR)/%.o, $(OBJECTS))
SOURCES:=$(SOURCES_RAW)
SOURCES:=$(patsubst %.cpp, $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp, $(SOURCES))
all: $(TARGET)
$(TARGET): $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) -w -D LINUX $(INCLUDE) $^ -o $# $(LDFLAGS)
release/%.o: src/%.cpp
test -d $(OBJDIR) || mkdir $(OBJDIR)
$(CC) -g -c $< $(CFLAGS) -o $#
debug: $(TARGETD)
$(TARGETD): $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) -w -D LINUX $(INCLUDE) $^ -o $# $(LDFLAGS)
%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) -c -g $< $(CFLAGS)-o $#
.PHONY : clean
clean:
rm -f $(OBJDIR)/*.o
rm -f $(TARGET) $(TARGETD)
All I do is change the OBJDIR symbol to "objects" so it would just be -
OBJDIR=objects
But when I do that, I get the error -
make: *** No rule to make target `objects/robot_driver_agent.o', needed by `go'.
What am I missing? Is "objects" a word reserved for something in make so I can't use it for directories? Is it something in the make file that I need to change? Honestly, I don't know that much about makefiles so any help at all would be great. Thanks.
You have a rule:
release/%.o: src/%.cpp
...
So that when OBJDIR=release and Make wants to build release/robot_driver_agent.o, it knows just what to do. Then you try OBJDIR=objects, it wants to build objects/robot_driver_agent.o, and it doesn't know how because there's no rule that fits. Try changing the rule to:
$(OBJDIR)/%.o: src/%.cpp
...
I have a Makefile that looks like this
CXX = g++ -O2 -Wall
all: code1 code2
code1: code1.cc utilities.cc
$(CXX) $^ -o $#
code2: code2.cc utilities.cc
$(CXX) $^ -o $#
What I want to do next is to include clean target so that every time
I run make it will automatically delete the existing binary files of code1 and code2 before creating the new ones.
I tried to put these lines at the very end of the makefile, but it doesn't work
clean:
rm -f $#
echo Clean done
What's the right way to do it?
The best thing is probably to create a variable that holds your binaries:
binaries=code1 code2
Then use that in the all-target, to avoid repeating:
all: clean $(binaries)
Now, you can use this with the clean-target, too, and just add some globs to catch object files and stuff:
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -f $(binaries) *.o
Note use of the .PHONY to make clean a pseudo-target. This is a GNU make feature, so if you need to be portable to other make implementations, don't use it.
In makefile language $# means "name of the target", so rm -f $# translates to rm -f clean.
You need to specify to rm what exactly you want to delete, like rm -f *.o code1 code2
By the way it is written, clean rule is invoked only if it is explicitly called:
make clean
I think it is better, than make clean every time. If you want to do this by your way, try this:
CXX = g++ -O2 -Wall
all: clean code1 code2
code1: code1.cc utilities.cc
$(CXX) $^ -o $#
code2: code2.cc utilities.cc
$(CXX) $^ -o $#
clean:
rm ...
echo Clean done