Error in Makefile for Lex and Yacc

oulevon · 10-23-2005, 11:24 PM

As I mentioned in a previous thread, I'm writing a compiler for a subset of Pascal (Appendix A of the Dragon Book). I've been given the lex and yacc files to get me started as well as some other sample code including a makefile. This makefile is about 6 years old. When I run make, I get the following error:

Code:

cc -o pascal y.tab.o lex.yy.o symbol.o main.o -ll -ly 
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ly
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [pascal] Error 1

Does anyone know what the -ly option is doing?

I'm going to be changing the makefile so that it uses gcc instead of cc. Is there an analogous option for gcc ?

I'll post the makefile for reference.

Thanks for any help.

Code:

pascal: y.tab.o lex.yy.o symbol.o main.o
	cc -o pascal y.tab.o lex.yy.o symbol.o main.o -ll -ly 

symbol.o: symbol.c globals.h
	cc -c symbol.c

main.o: main.c symbol.h
	cc -c main.c

y.tab.o: y.tab.c globals.h
	 cc -c y.tab.c

lex.yy.o: lex.yy.c symbol.h y.tab.h
	 cc -c lex.yy.c

y.tab.c: pascal.y symbol.h globals.h lex.yy.c
	yacc -d pascal.y

lex.yy.c: pascal.l symbol.h
	lex pascal.l

paulsm4 · 10-24-2005, 12:03 AM

"-ll" links in the "lex" library, and "-ly" links in yacc.

If you're using "flex", then you don't need "-ll" ... but you DO need to have your "main()" (or some other function) call your "yylex()".

I assume you're probably using the GNU equivalents of "lex" and "yacc". If so, you'll probably have to make a few (minor!) changes to your makefile (and possibly your code).

If you're using GNU flex and bison, I encourage you to spend a few minutes with the GNU documentation, successfully build a little "hello world" ... and only then revisit your Pascal project.

Your .. PSM

oulevon · 10-24-2005, 12:52 AM

Thanks for your help.