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Programming Utilities Guide

Simple Makefile Example

The following makefile is not elegant, but it does the job.

Table 4-4 Simple Makefile for Compiling C Sources: Everything Explicit 
# Simple makefile for compiling a program from
# two C source files.  

.KEEP_STATE

functions: main.o data.o 
         cc -O -o functions main.o data.o 
main.o: main.c 
        	cc -O -c main.c 
data.o: data.c 
         cc -O -c data.c 
clean: 
        	rm functions main.o data.o

In this example, make produces the object files main.o and data.o, and the executable file functions: 

$ make 
cc -o functions main.o data.o 
cc -O -c main.c 
cc -O -c data.c