在Windows上使用Makefile进行编译

Question

I want to compile my code using MakeFile in a Windows environment. I have created a Makefile in Linux but don't have any idea how to create and run in Windows. I have installed MinGW and also edited the environment variable path. I have tried running the Makefile like I was doing in a Linux environment, but I'm not able to run it. Can anyone please share any link.

This is my simple Makefile

CC = g++

all: Exe 

Exe : main.o Hello.o

    $(CC) -o Exe main.o Hello.o

main.o: main.cpp
    $(CC) -c main.cpp

Hello.o: Hello.cpp
    $(CC) -c Hello.cpp

clean:
    rm -rf *o main.o Hello.o

I am running it from the command prompt make MakeFile and every time it prompts with the message, makefile up to date . It is not doing anything, not even generating an executable.

Answer 1

The syntax is almost the same. It's really depend if you added specific command (like using find , grep , ...).

You should add the error reported by make command to your question. Without more information we cannot guess where is the problem

Edit: I did not understand that you do not find the make command. The make command is sometime named mingw32-make.exe . It's really depend which version and type of MinGW you installed

Edit2: The command line to type is make (or mingw32-make.exe ) and not make Makefile Take a look at the man of make

In the clean: section, do not use rm , this command does not exist on Windows

Answer 2

Goto bin directory in MinGW and check whether you have a file named make.exe if you don't have it then rename mingw32-make.exe to make.exe
As I remember normally make.exe is named mingw32-make.exe in the MinGW distribution, I don't know why they do so, but renaming it to make.exe can solve the problem in most of the cases.