You should never quote anything because of make. Make doesn’t understand or parse single- or double-quote characters in any way. Every quoting character you write in a makefile will be kept as a literal quote and passed along as-is to the commands that make invokes. So, if the shell expects and can interpret a quoted … Read more
I am fairly sure this will work: make VERBOSE=1 You should also be able to add this to your CMakeLists.txt to permanently set that: set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE on) This is covered in the CMake FAQ.
There’s more than one way to do it, but this is a pretty good one (I really should have that hotkeyed). vpath %.cpp ../src src = Foo.cpp Bar.cpp test_src = Main.cpp FooTest.cpp BarTest.cpp objects = $(patsubst %.cpp,obj/%.o,$(src)) test_objects = $(patsubst %.cpp,obj/%.o,$(test_src)) $(objects): | obj obj: @mkdir -p $@ obj/%.o : %.cpp @echo $< @$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) … Read more
You can use Target-specific Variable Values. Example: CXXFLAGS = -g3 -gdwarf2 CCFLAGS = -g3 -gdwarf2 all: executable debug: CXXFLAGS += -DDEBUG -g debug: CCFLAGS += -DDEBUG -g debug: executable executable: CommandParser.tab.o CommandParser.yy.o Command.o $(CXX) -o output CommandParser.yy.o CommandParser.tab.o Command.o -lfl CommandParser.yy.o: CommandParser.l flex -o CommandParser.yy.c CommandParser.l $(CC) -c CommandParser.yy.c Remember to use $(CXX) or $(CC) … Read more
The shell function. You can use shell function: current_dir = $(shell pwd). Or shell in combination with notdir, if you need not absolute path: current_dir = $(notdir $(shell pwd)). Update. Given solution only works when you are running make from the Makefile’s current directory. As @Flimm noted: Note that this returns the current working directory, … Read more
CPPFLAGS is supposed to be for flags for the C PreProcessor; CXXFLAGS is for flags for the C++ compiler. The default rules in make (on my machine, at any rate) pass CPPFLAGS to just about everything, CFLAGS is only passed when compiling and linking C, and CXXFLAGS is only passed when compiling and linking C++.
It is actually executing the command, changing the directory to some_directory, however, this is performed in a sub-process shell, and affects neither make nor the shell you’re working from. If you’re looking to perform more tasks within some_directory, you need to add a semi-colon and append the other commands as well. Note that you cannot … Read more
Here’s what I had good results with using CMake and Visual Studio or GNU toolchains: Exchange GNU make with Ninja. It’s faster, makes use of all available CPU cores automatically and has a good dependency management. Just be aware of a.) You need to setup the target dependencies in CMake correctly. If you get to … Read more
Here’s the Makefile I’ve added to the documentation (currently in review so I’ll post it here) : # Set project directory one level above the Makefile directory. $(CURDIR) is a GNU make variable containing the path to the current working directory PROJDIR := $(realpath $(CURDIR)/..) SOURCEDIR := $(PROJDIR)/Sources BUILDDIR := $(PROJDIR)/Build # Name of the … Read more
Under Bash (at least), this can be done automatically with tab completion: make spacetabtab