Here is my makefile, i have object files in obj/ directory, and i need to compile them into binaries in bin/ folder, but somehow it doesn't work as i wanted it to work, any ideas?
SOURCES= $(wildcard *.c)
OBJECTS:= $(patsubst %.c, %.o, $(SOURCES))
OBJECTS:= $(addprefix obj/,$(OBJECTS))
NAMES:= $(patsubst %.c, %, $(SOURCES))
NAMES:= $(addprefix bin/,$(NAMES))
CC=gcc
CFLAGS= -Wall -c -o
DIRS = bin obj
all: $(DIRS) $(NAMES)
$(NAMES): $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) -o $@ $<
obj/%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $@ $<
$(DIRS):
mkdir -p $@
clean:
rm -rf $(DIRS)
Actual output:
mkdir -p bin
mkdir -p obj
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task1.o task1.c
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task2.o task2.c
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task3.o task3.c
gcc -o bin/task1 obj/task1.o
gcc -o bin/task2 obj/task1.o
gcc -o bin/task3 obj/task1.o
Expected output:
mkdir -p bin
mkdir -p obj
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task1.o task1.c
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task2.o task2.c
gcc -Wall -c -o obj/task3.o task3.c
gcc -o bin/task1 obj/task1.o
gcc -o bin/task2 obj/task2.o
gcc -o bin/task3 obj/task3.o
In this rule:
$(NAMES): $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) -o $@ $<
each executable depends on all objects. And since $< grabs only the first prerequisite, all you see is obj/task1.o.
Do it this way:
bin/%: obj/%.o
$(CC) -o $@ $<
or this way:
$(NAMES): bin/% : obj/%.o
$(CC) -o $@ $<
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