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liuyz
liuyz

Reputation: 106

custom makefile works in cmd with Cygwin make, but not in Eclipse CDT

I have a simple makefile works OK under CMD prompt using Cygwin make. But have problem by invoking through Make Target in Eclipse CDT.

The content of my makefile is as below:

all: aaa

aaa: bbb.o
    cc -o aaa.exe bbb.o

bbb.o: bbb.c
    cc -c bbb.c

clean:
    rm -f *.exe *.o

When in CMD, make all will build and generate aaa.exe, while make clean will clean the EXE file generated.

The make command used is from {myCygwinFolder}\bin\make.exe. This can be checked by which make in CMD, which gives /usr/bin/make. Also, the Cygwin path is added in my system PATH.

But when I try to set up a Standard Make C Project, the make clean just doesn't work. Actually, I have setup 2 Make Targets for my project, make all and make clean. The things happened was, no matter which one I ran, I always got the following error:

Error launching builder (make all )
(Exec error:The system cannot find the file specified.
)

or

Error launching builder (make clean)
(Exec error:The system cannot find the file specified.
)

After searching online and some tries, I found it seems Eclipse couldn't find the builder/make properly.

So, I went to the project properties, Builders tab and created a new builder that point to my {myCygwinFolder}\bin\make.exe.

With this fix, I would be able to compile with Make Target make all. But when I compile with Make Target make clean, Eclipse still tries to run Make Target make all.

If I move clean section to the beginning of the makefile. Both Make Target will all run make clean. It seems the all/clean tags are not passed into Cygwin make correctly, and Eclipse just make the first task in makefile.

The project structure setup in Eclipse is:

ProjectRoot
  |__folderA
       |__makefile
       |__bbb.c
       |__*.*
  |__folderB

Could anyone can help in setting up correct Make Target in Eclipse? Any comments are welcomed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1194

Answers (1)

UpAndAdam
UpAndAdam

Reputation: 5467

The issue is path. When you are in windows environment from eclipse, you'll need to adjust the path to ensure that make can be found. I routinely used to have to have to change the default build command to get around this back in my days of using the CDT

Upvotes: 0

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