Say I have a makefile, upon compiling with the command make, it produces an executable named 'run'.
So far, I know that 'make' is used to compile multiple source codes but what I have never heard of is you can use 'make' to execute the executable.
Is it possible to execute the binary with this command later with 'make run'?
I think this one is basic question but I'm yet to find an answer.
Sorry if it hurts some of the people here. =D
You can create a .PHONY target called run.
.PHONY: run
run:
./executableName
.PHONY means that the makefile won't create a file and will run the command every time.
Note: Most likely you have a target that is to make the executable. Do not give the .PHONY target the same name as the executable.
No, to run the program type
./run
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I tried to use a make file in code::blocks but I am doing it wrong. I have the version installed with the compilers included. http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/10.05/Windows/codeblocks-10.05mingw-setup.exe/download. What do I do with the make file? It starts with:
CC=gcc
best, US
You don't tend to execute the make file itself, rather you execute make, giving it the make file as an argument:
make -f pax.mk
If your make file is actually one of the standard names (like makefile or Makefile), you don't even need to specify it. It'll be picked up by default (if you have more than one of these standard names in your build directory, you better look up the make man page to see which takes precedence).
As paxdiablo said make -f pax.mk would execute the pax.mk makefile, if you directly execute it by typing ./pax.mk, then you would get syntax error.
Also you can just type make if your file name is makefile/Makefile.
Suppose you have two files named makefile and Makefile in the same directory then makefile is executed if make alone is given. You can even pass arguments to makefile.
Check out more about makefile at this Tutorial : Basic understanding of Makefile
I'm learning about makefiles. I've written a simple hello world like makefile named just makefile2 but when I run mingw32-make makefile2 I get:
Nothing to be done for 'makefile2'.
When I run just only mingw32-make (without supplying the file name) it works.
My question is it a rule to have only one makefile in the folder and to run it we don't provide a file name at all?
Is it possible to run specific makefile providing it's name?
PS. I'm using MinGW on Windows 10
Usually you need the -f option to tell make to use another file than Makefile or makefile, like
make -f makefile2
Without the -f flag, you tell make to build the target named (in your case) makefile2.
I have a project to compile with a lot of makefiles including a clean command. That's why i always have to start over again if there is an error (because the clean command is called in many Makefiles)
Question:
Is there any possibility to tell make to ignore the clean command? I would have to touch > 100 Makefiles otherwise. I would like make to start on the last error, not compiling all done stuff again
Example Makefile entries:
clean: cleansubdirs $(DIR) $(DIR1)
$(DIR2)
It's possible to redefine the recipe of an explicit target as simple as that:
noclean.mk
clean:;
cleansubdirs:;
# more stuff...
Now run make -f Makefile -f noclean.mk and it will work without actual cleaning files. However, make will issue several warnings about "overriding/ignoring old recipes".
I'm using automake.
I'd like to have a script run each time I run 'make'.
This script does a git diff and generates an MD5 sum of the diff.
The hash is written as a #define in repos_version.h
e.g.:
#define REPOS_DIFF "-190886e9f895e80c42cf6b426dc85afd"
The script only rewrites this file if it doesn't exist or if the diff has is different to what is in repos_version.h already. But the script needs to be run for each make.
main.c includes repos_version.h and prints out the hash when the executable is run.
Here's Attempt 1 for Makefile.am
all: config.h
#chmod +x gen_diff_hash.sh
#./gen_diff_hash.sh
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) all-recursive
This work, but I get the following error
Makefile:1234: warning: overriding recipe for target all'
Makefile:734: warning: ignoring old recipe for targetall'
Here's Attempt 2 for Makefile.am
all-local:
#chmod +x gen_diff_hash.sh
#./gen_diff_hash.sh
main.c: repos_version.h
However, this doesn't work, as all-local seems to be run too late. A second run of 'make' does get the desired result, but that's not a runner.
So neither are great.
Any ideas?
I've been reading through the automake hooks documentation, but I can't see anything that suits my needs.
You could ensure the script is always run every time Make loads the Makefile, by executing it via $(shell ./gen_diff_hash.sh) and assigning it to a throwaway variable (or using it in some other construct like an ifeq or something).
Note, that this is not POSIX, and on Make implementations other than GNU this isn't valid syntax. GNU Make 4.x supports using VAR != ./gen_diff_hash.sh as well, which is compatible with BSD Make at least.
But maybe it would be a better idea to create a .PHONY: gendiff target that runs the script, and make the header depend on this gendiff. The target would then be re-evaluated every time Make checks if repos_version.h is up-to-date, rather than every time Make is run at all.
I am absolutely new in gfortran+minGW.
I need to create makefile.
When I run
$ gfortran -c q.f
All is ok!
But how can I run makefile like this?
CC = gfortran
q.o : q.f
$(CC) -c q2.o q2.f
I receive error “CC: command not found”.
(OS – Win 7 (64))
Tanks!!!
It kind of looks like you're trying to run the makefile as a regular script. Try
$ make
or
$ make -f mymakefilename
if you named the file something other than "makefile" or "Makefile".
You can potentially just execute the makefile, but if so you need a "shebang" line, something like
#!/usr/bin/make
at the top of the file, but frankly hardly anyone uses that option. Just use the make(1) command.
Update
It's because they're in the wrong order. Makefiles process (by default) the first target in the file. When you run make it sees the rule to make, q.o from q.f, it compiles it, and says, "Okay, I'm done."
If you put the q.exe target first, it says "Hmmm, I want to build q.exe and to do that I need a q.o. Do I have a q.o? No? Okay, hen I'll build a q.o. I have a rule for that -- I can build a q.o from q.f. okay, that's done. Now can I build q.exe? Oh, yes, I can. I'll build q.exe. Anything? Nope, I'm done."
If you were to use the commend
$ make q.exe
then you'd explicitly tell make to make q.exe, which would cause the same thing to happen, but better you should reorder your makefile and get used to the way they work.