I routinely work on several different computers and several different operating systems, which are Mac OS X, Linux, or Solaris. For the project I’m working on, I pull my code from a remote git repository. I like to be able to work on my projects regardless of which terminal I’m at. So far, I’ve found … Read more
I am getting the following error running make: Makefile:168: *** missing separator. Stop. What is causing this? 14 Answers 14
In my makefile, I have a variable ‘NDK_PROJECT_PATH’, my question is how can I print it out when it compiles? I read Make file echo displaying “$PATH” string and I tried: @echo $(NDK_PROJECT_PATH) @echo $(value NDK_PROJECT_PATH) Both gives me “build-local.mk:102: *** missing separator. Stop.” Any one knows why it is not working for me? 15 … Read more
These two files are mostly seen in open source projects. What are they for, and how do they work? 4 Answers 4
For example, I have something like this in my makefile: all: cd some_directory But when I typed make I saw only ‘cd some_directory’, like in the echo command. 7 Answers 7
I use Makefiles. I have a target called run which runs the build target. Simplified, it looks like the following: prog: …. … run: prog ./prog Is there any way to pass arguments? So that make run asdf –> ./prog asdf make run the dog kicked the cat –> ./prog the dog kicked the cat … Read more
While running ./configure –prefix=/mingw on a MinGW/MSYS system for a library I had previously run ‘./configure –prefix=/mingw && make && make install’ I came across this message: WARNING: A version of the Vamp plugin SDK is already installed. Expect worries and sorrows if you install a new version without removing the old one first. (Continuing) … Read more
CC=g++ CFLAGS=-c -Wall LDFLAGS= SOURCES=main.cpp hello.cpp factorial.cpp OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.cpp=.o) EXECUTABLE=hello all: $(SOURCES) $(EXECUTABLE) $(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -o $@ .cpp.o: $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@ What do the $@ and $< do exactly? 6 s 6
Can I pass variables to a GNU Makefile as command line arguments? In other words, I want to pass some arguments which will eventually become variables in the Makefile. 8 s 8 You have several options to set up variables from outside your makefile: From environment – each environment variable is transformed into a makefile … Read more
Can anybody give a clear explanation of how variable assignment really works in Makefiles. What is the difference between : VARIABLE = value VARIABLE ?= value VARIABLE := value VARIABLE += value I have read the section in GNU Make’s manual, but it still doesn’t make sense to me. 6 s 6 Lazy Set VARIABLE … Read more
