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Reputation: 25

Makefile: "No such file or directory" for target file

First, I should admit makefiles are something that I'm very inexperienced at, so I apologize if this is an error that I should have been able to solve myself, but I have spent several hours on this, including reading the various answers on this site, and have been unable to discover a solution.

With that said, I have created the following makefile to compile my code on a Linux machine; it completes the sub compilations just fine, but when it comes to making the output itself, xPlatST, it throws an error.

g++ -std=c+=11 -g -Wall -pthread -c -o xPlatST.o xPlatST.cpp
g++ -std=c+=11 -g -Wall -pthread -c -o stdafx.o stdafx.cpp
g++ -std=c+=11 -g -Wall -pthread -c xPlatST xPlatST.o stdafx.o -L../hwloc
g++ error: xPlatST: No such file or directory
make: *** [xPlatST] Error 1

I believe it seems to think that the xPlatST is one of it's compilation files and thus can't find it, but for the life of me I can't work out why.

hwloc is a third party library, and should be unrelated to this issue. The code compiles just fine when compiled from the command line directly.

My files are xPlatST.cpp, xPlatST.h, stdafx.cpp, stdafh.h

Code is as follows:

CXX = g++ -std=c++11
INCLUDES =
LIBS = -L../hwloc 
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -g -pthread
OBJS = xPlatST.o stdafx.o

xPlatST: ${OBJS}
    ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -c $@ ${OBJS} ${LIBS}

clean:
    -rm xPlatST *.o

Any help would be greatly appreciated; thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1630

Answers (1)

giusti
giusti

Reputation: 3538

Your assumption is correct. Your recipe is trying to use xPlatST as a source. Change the -c into a -o in your rule:

${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -o $@ ${OBJS} ${LIBS}

The -c flag tells the compiler to take all files, compile, and assemble them into an object file (.o). The -o flag specifies the destination file.

Upvotes: 3

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