Thread: How to use a makefile

I've written a makefile and saved it under the name "MakeFile" (provided below) for my program. It's in the same folder as my programs.


all: main


main.o: main.cc Greetings.cc
g++ -c -Werror main.cc


Greetings.o: Greetings.cc Greetings.h
g++ -c -Werror Greetings.cc


main: main.o Greetings.o
g++ -0 main main.o Greetings.o






Now how do I actually use the makefile? I read that you should type in make [options] [target1 target2 ...]. What are options and target? As an experiment, I tried typing "make MakeFile" and I got an error as shown below.


Conrados-MBP:~ conrados$ make MakeFile
make: *** No rule to make target `MakeFile'. Stop.

I'm using a Macbook pro and sublime text 3 for my text editor. I'm also using my computer's terminal to compile my code.