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Re: Make things it's time to link when it should compile
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Eric Lilja <mindcooler at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:28:24 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Make things it's time to link when it should compile
- References: <dqrkej$abf$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Eric Lilja wrote:
> Hello, I'm having trouble with make for one simple program.
> mikael@mindcooler ~/coding/C/extract_acodes
> $ ls -al
> total 33K
> drwxrwxrwx+ 2 mikael None 0 Jan 20 22:15 ./
> drwxrwxrwx+ 22 mikael None 0 Dec 7 16:12 ../
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 mikael None 264 Oct 14 13:54 Makefile*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mikael None 25K Jan 20 22:15 cygcheck.out
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 mikael None 1.7K Oct 14 14:03 extract_acodes.c*
>
> mikael@mindcooler ~/coding/C/extract_acodes
> $ cat Makefile
> CC = gcc
> CFLAGS = -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -O0 -c -o
> LDFLAGS = -o $(EXEC)
> EXEC = extract_acodes.exe
> OBJECTS = extract_acodes.o
>
> all: $(OBJECTS)
> $(CC) $^ $(LDFLAGS)
>
> %.o: %.c
> $(CC) $(CLFAGS) $@ $<
>
> clean:
> rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXEC) *~ *.stackdump
>
> mikael@mindcooler ~/coding/C/extract_acodes
> $ make
> gcc extract_acodes.o extract_acodes.c
> gcc: extract_acodes.o: No such file or directory
> make: *** [extract_acodes.o] Error 1
>
> Compiling and linking the program manually works just fine:
> $ gcc -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -O0 -c extract_acodes.c
>
> mikael@mindcooler ~/coding/C/extract_acodes
> $ gcc extract_acodes.o -o extract_acodes.exe
>
> But when I try to use the make, it seems to think it's time for the
> final linking stage...and it's just a problem with this particular
> "project". Any ideas what's wrong? I'm sure the Makefile is the culprit,
> but I can't see the error. cygcheck.out attached (I would have used
> cygwin 1.5.19-4 but I couln't find it on my local mirrors yet).
Actually, make does exactly what you told it to do in line 11: invoke gcc
with the empty value (of an uninitialized CLFAGS variable) after it,
followed by the object file target, followed by the prerequisite source
file. That's not a linking step. FWIW, you'd have the same exact trouble
on Linux.
For that reason, the "-o" option usually isn't part of CFLAGS. Aside from
fixing the typo, I'd rewrite your Makefile as follows:
$ cat Makefile
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -O0
LDFLAGS =
EXEC = extract_acodes.exe
OBJECTS = extract_acodes.o
all: $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(EXEC) $^ $(LDLIBS)
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CLFAGS) -c -o $@ $<
clean:
rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXEC) *~ *.stackdump
$
Considering that most of your actions directly reflect the implicit make
rules anyway, I'd even go for
$ cat Makefile
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic -g -O0
LDFLAGS =
EXEC = extract_acodes.exe
OBJECTS = extract_acodes.o
all: $(EXEC)
$(EXEC): $(OBJECTS)
clean:
rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXEC) *~ *.stackdump
$
HTH,
Igor
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