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From: rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe)
Subject: Problems with a simple makefile
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:04:13 GMT
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Hi!

	I'm a newbie to DJGPP, but I've done a bit of C programming
before. I've never had to write a makefile before, and I'm having problems
getting the one I've written to work. I've read the FAQ and the info on
make, but I can't find anything that's helpful.

	The following is the code in the makefile (with comments removed):

  FLAGS = -Wall -m386

  starship : starship.o
             gcc -lalleg starship.o -o starship $(FLAGS)

  starship.o : stdlib.h allegro.h
               gcc -c starship.c -o starship.o $(FLAGS)

This produces the error message 'makefile:8: *** missing separator. Stop',
where line 8 is the line following 'starship : ...'.

	'starship.c' just prints "Hello!\n", and '#include's stdlib.h and
allegro.h (as in the dependecies). I can compile and link the program fine
from the DOS command-line, and the program works fine (I have Allegro's
library in my library path, and the include file in the include path BTW). I
know the compiler works because I have compiled Allegro, PDCurses, GRX20
and some other programs with it. I've tried saving the makefile in Unix's
text file format rather than DOS's, but this made no difference.

	I think I am missing something extremely simple here, but I cannot
see what. Thanks in advance for any help.

				Rich Dawe

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