I have a problem with Makefile. It should compile a .c file to an object file only if the .c file has been modified.
But I have an error when I use all
rule:
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make: *** No rule to make target `obj/main.o', needed by `ft_ls'. Stop.
When I use manually it works:
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clang -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Iinclude -o obj/main.o -c src/main.c
My work directory:
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Makefile include/*.h libft/libft.a src/*.c
Makefile content:
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NAME = ft_ls
SRC_PATH = src
OBJ_PATH = obj
CPPFLAGS = -Iinclude
LDFLAGS = -Llibft
LDLIBS = -lft
CFLAGS = -Werror -Wall -Wextra
CC = clang
SRC_NAME = main.c
ft_type.c
ft_right.c
ft_putright.c
ft_date_converter.c
OBJ_NAME = $(SRC_NAME:.c=.o)
SRC = $(addprefix $(SRC_PATH)/,$(SRC_NAME))
OBJ = $(addprefix $(OBJ_PATH)/,$(OBJ_NAME))
all: $(NAME)
$(NAME): $(OBJ)
$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDLIBS) $^ -o $@
make -C libft
$(OBJ_PATH)%.o: $(SRC_PATH)%.c
@mkdir $(OBJ_PATH) 2> /dev/null || true
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<
clean:
rm -fv $(OBJ)
make -C libft clean
@rmdir $(OBJ_PATH) 2> /dev/null || true
fclean: clean
rm -fv $(NAME)
make -C libft fclean
re: fclean all
.PHONY: all, clean, fclean, re
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Answer
this dependency line:
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$(OBJ_PATH)%.o: $(SRC_PATH)%.c
concatenates $(OBJ_PATH)
with the object name, but there’s a /
missing, should be
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$(OBJ_PATH)/%.o: $(SRC_PATH)/%.c
else it expands (ex: for main
) to:
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objmain.o : srcmain.c