On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 01:36 -0700, msaqib wrote:
> What I would like to achieve is
> to build a generic Makefile, so that if I type
>
> make foo
>
> It will read foo.cpp and compile it to a file called foo. Now, I should be
> able to create any new source file (perhaps new1.cpp) and not have to change
> the Makefile and still get the file compiled by typing make new1.cpp.
You don't need a makefile at all for that. make has builtin rules which
allow it to build a program "foo" from a source file "foo.cpp" (or
"foo.c" or "foo.f" or whatever).
All you need a makefile for is to reset flags variables.
Note that "CC" is a C compiler. "CXX" is the C++ compiler. So if you
have a makefile in your directory like this:
$ cat Makefile
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -O2
LDLIBS = -lncurses
that's all you need. Just run "make foo", "make new1", or whatever.
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