makefile help

Hi

I have some libraries that require execution with a certain make file. However I am unsure how to extend the makefile to include other .cpp files. I have listed below. Could some-one please explain how to do this, thanks

Code:

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    include platform specific settings
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Choose the right include file from the <cgalroot>/make directory.

# CGAL_MAKEFILE = ENTER_YOUR_INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_HERE
include $(CGAL_MAKEFILE)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    compiler flags
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

CXXFLAGS = \
           -I../../include \
           $(CGAL_CXXFLAGS) \
           $(LONG_NAME_PROBLEM_CXXFLAGS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    linker flags
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

LIBPATH = \
          $(CGAL_LIBPATH)

LDFLAGS = \
          $(LONG_NAME_PROBLEM_LDFLAGS) \
          $(CGAL_LDFLAGS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    target entries
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

all:



clean: 

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    suffix rules
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

.C$(OBJ_EXT):
	$(CGAL_CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(OBJ_OPT) $<


.cpp$(OBJ_EXT):
	$(CGAL_CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(OBJ_OPT) $<

Give me the names and paths of the libraries and I'd be fine doing it for you. If you want to be independent though, just define where the files exist LIBPATH and the name of of the library in the linker path or even LDFLAGS if you wanted. Just as a shortcut a library such as libopengl.a could be noted as -lopengl or libmylibrary.a could be noted as -lmylibrary.

For everyone else in the world with the same question, after a quick google I found this handy tutorial:

http://www.opussoftware.com/tutorial/TutMakefile.htm

I think nothing beats just reading the makefiles your IDE spits out and deriving and understanding from that. But for people not using and IDE it helps to have a tutorial.

Thanks for the link, but unless I am mistaken I did not see anything relating to the structure of the makefile that I have. I have been this archetype because I do not have an IDE simply the template makefile. I have been placing the single .ccp after all: But when I placed the second file I wish to incorporate into the compilation, it no longer works. So in a nutshell, how do I incorporate this second file....

Thanks

Hence my request for paths Just give me the names of your cpp files, the names of your libraries, and the paths to your include and library directories. What OS are you using? Perhaps I can recommend an IDE.

dont want to go down the IDE route....

I'm on ubuntu....

I have a machine sitting next to me operating systemless and ubuntu 7.1 waiting to be put on it. How are you liking it?

dont want to go down the IDE route....

Why not? Learning purposes?

I admit that I am rather bad at manually editing makefiles, which is partially why I ended up using SCons unless a project maintainer or an IDE manages the makefile for me.

I have a machine sitting next to me operating systemless and ubuntu 7.1 waiting to be put on it. How are you liking it?

Perhaps you mean Ubuntu 7.10? Though Ubuntu 8.04 was released a few days ago...

Yeah it was released a couple of days after my 7.10 download (Jesus... I didn't think leaving out a minor version was a crime these days).

I didn't think leaving out a minor version was a crime these days

They have a funny naming convention. 7.10 is not 7.1.0, but literally 7.10, as in 2007, October (month #10). Thus 7.1 is an entirely different version, meaning 2007, January.

Oh ok. Very well then laserlight, I will stop thinking of you as a semantics bully