Makefile?

hello..

i have limited experince with c++ and even less in UNIX,
i was told to run some programs in UNIX, and that a Makefile is included for me.

I have no idea what a Makefile is...?

any help?

AKira

Hi, this is the c forum, would you not be better posting this on the c++ board

A make file is _NOT_ C++ specific.

Simple, a "make file" executes a series of commands, when, oddly enough, you type "make".

Quzah.

a Makefile is actually a series of dependencies
so if you have
helloworld.c
and another called printhelloworld.c which has a fn used oin helloworld.c

to compile them both correctly and together you use a makefile

dependencies are of the form

helloword(executable) depends on both object files

and both object files depend on both the c files

so once you get the dependencies rite you will be able to just
make
the whole program

i wont explain the rest here you can look at a few makefiles on you Linux distribution