compiling multiple source files

[broli]

How can this be done in windows based C compilers like PellesC ?? Is
it possible to write a makefile or use the cc- o option as available
in unix/linux ?? does anyone know of good makefile tutorials ??
(I appologize if this is offtopic but I couldn't think of a better
place to ask this question)

[David Thompson]

#if offtopic == toolchain
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:17:17 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<rj*@see.sig.invalidwrote:

broli said:

Is it possible to write a makefile

Yes, makefiles aren't compiler-dependent. A make program simply checks
dependencies and selectively executes commands. The commands you execute
can be calls to any compiler you like.

The idea and format of makefiles is not compiler-dependent, but the
contents of actual makefiles are. The actions you want executed may
differ, especially as to options, and there are even cases where the
dependencies are different. (When Fortran 90 added modules,
implementors made the reasonably obvious choice to put predigested
interface information in files for later reference, but they made
different reasonable choices as to which things to put in which files.
Users got annoyed enough there is now a de-facto standard.)

There are also _system_ differences which are not strictly compiler
differences, for example whether to 'tsort' libraries.

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