Compiling multiple C and header files with 1 main

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Need help compiling in a make file.

So I have this link list assignment i'm doing and the directions were. stringlist.h is supposed to contain the node and the function prototypes stringlist.c is supposed to have the functions completed that are defined in stringlist.h. BUT stringlist.c is not supposed to contain main at all. Then, namelist.c is supposed to contain main and just have the I/O and its just supposed to call the command functions that are in stringlist.c.

So to compile this we are supposed to create a make file. Whenever I try to I get an error because main doesn't exit in one of the c files. Throughout the term we compiled code like this "gcc -std=gnu99 -m32 -Wall -g -o file file.c" But it doesn't work.

How would I create the make file? Been spending hours and can't figure it out.

Answer 1

As stated by Jonathan Leffler, the sample Makefile I provided had a few bad ideas. Here's an improvement:

# compiler:
CC = gcc

# compiler flags: 
CFLAGS  = -g -Wall

# the build target executable:
TARGET = executable

# object files to build:
OBJ = namelist.o stringlist.o

all: $(TARGET)

$(TARGET): $(OBJ)
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJ)