please check out my makefile

filwhua · 01-25-2005, 05:22 AM

Code:

CPP = g++
OFLAG = -o
.SUFFIXES = .cpp .o
.cpp.o:
  $(CPP) -c $<

all: \
     example

example: example.o
  $(CPP) $(OFLAG) example example.o
  
example.o: example.cpp

Why always report "makefile:5: *** missing separator. Stop."?

thanks in advance

bigearsbilly · 01-25-2005, 05:57 AM

REMEMBER:

for the rules, the first character needs to be a <TAB>

target:
<TAB>rule

do a cat -vt makefile to make tabs visible as a ^I and you should see
something like:

Code:

target:
^I rule

You do know that make has all the built-in rules you need
for compiling most languages?

So you don't need to re-state these rules.

In fact, for really simple progs you don't even need a makefile.
If you gzip your make file then type make example
it should do what you want.

filwhua · 01-25-2005, 09:56 PM

thanks, bigearsbilly

Matir · 01-26-2005, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bigearsbilly

You do know that make has all the built-in rules you need
for compiling most languages?

So you don't need to re-state these rules.

In fact, for really simple progs you don't even need a makefile.
If you gzip your make file then type make example
it should do what you want.

Which rules are built in? And what's this with the gzipping, etc.?