• Joey Peters (2/2) Nov 09 2004 The 'make' tool documentation is pretty... Lacking. Could someone paste ...
• Sean Kelly (24/26) Nov 09 2004 'make' is a standard tool that's used a lot more on Unix than it is on

Joey Peters <Joey_member pathlink.com> writes:

The 'make' tool documentation is pretty... Lacking. Could someone paste me a
simple example makefile?

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

Joey Peters wrote:
 The 'make' tool documentation is pretty... Lacking. Could someone paste me a
 simple example makefile?

'make' is a standard tool that's used a lot more on Unix than it is on 
Windows (if you know all this, forgive me).  If you're so inclined, 
O'Reilly has a good little book called "Managing Projects with Make." 
Here's a sample makefile:

program : main.o mod1.o mod2.o
     sc program main.o mod1.o mod2.o

main.o : main.d
     dmd -c main.d

mod1.o : mod1.d
     dmd mod1.d

mod2.o : mod2.d
     dmd mod2.d

'program' is a target, and its dependencies are listed after the colon. 
  The following tab-indented line contains the command that builds 
'program.'  But first make goes and builds all its dependencies, so 
mod1.o depends only on 'mod1.d' and is built using the command 'dmd -c 
main.d,' etc.  Things can get a bit tricky, as makefiles can contain 
macros like:

name = string

So when you place '$(name)' in the makefile it will be replaced with 
'string.'  This should be enough to go on.  There are some rather long 
makefiles in the dmd source tree that I assume you've found :)


Sean