From: Charles Terry <cterry AT plinet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: no .EXE or .O files after a make
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 16:27:39 -0800
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Michael Samuel Tam wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         Thank you for your reply.  When I go to compile, I have a Makefile
> that I have creatd.  The contents are:
> 
> -----
> 
> CFLAGS  =       -g
> CC      =       gcc -c -Wall
> 
> App: readFile.o
>         gcc -o App.exe readFile.o
> 
> readFile.o: readFile.c
>         gcc -c -Wall -g readFile.c
> 
> clean:
>         del core App a.out *.o
> 
> -----
> 
> The readFile.c just reads and displays the contents of a file.  It is a
> simple program I wanted to test.  I run this in a DOS prompt by going
> 'make'.  It goes through the compiling stages, but I cannot find the .EXE
> or .O files that is supposed to be created.  I do a 'Find; and
> readFile.EXE or readFile.O doesn't show up anywhere.
>
I won't claim to know the answer but my approach would be to
add a -v switch to both gcc commands and read what files are
created and wherre.

Charles