MakeFile for C++ project

Question

I wrote my own makefile -Which will be used to compile my C++ project-

But I had some issues with it:

1. I need to delete all temporary files; objects, executables and those for UNIX

   I did the first two like this; but how may I implement the latter?

   clean:

    rm -f $(OBJS) $(EXEC)
   

2. I need to zip all files in a test.zip folder using tar command in the folder where makefile is -including it-), how may I do that?

   tar:

Answer 1

You want to delete all "temporary files", but a temporary file is a file that people don't intend to keep very long. There is no way for a tool like Make to know people's intentions without being told.

To create a zipped archive of Makefile and test.zip/ from the command line, you can use a command like:

tar -czvf archive.tgz Makefile test.zip

You can put that in a rule in the makefile like this:

archive.tgz:
    tar -czvf archive.tgz Makefile test.zip

Further refinements are possible, once you have this much working correctly.