On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:49 +0200, Martin Mensch wrote:
> I would like to start a program by using a make rule. I know that
> compilers and so on are all programs. The ones that I want to start do
> not finish and so don't send an error code back and as much as I have
> seen make then just waits for the error code to come.
There is no way for make to not wait for a program.
If you had a UNIX system with a normal shell, you could put the process
into the background, like this:
foo:
program1 &
program2 &
(the "&" tells the shell to put the program into the background). You
mentioned you're using Windows, but I don't know if you're using Cygwin
(which has, I believe, a UNIX-style shell) or MingW or whatever. I
don't know how to put a program into the background on Windows.
If no one here answers you might ask on the [email protected] mailing
list, which is for Windows-specific make questions.
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