[mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)

[Matthew Brown]

The process I (and others that I am familiar with) use is to define macros for common file extensions such as: EXEEXT, OBJEXT, and LIBEXT. You can conditionally define these in the makefile (or in a makefile that is included everywhere) to be the proper values for the target platform.

Example using gmake syntax:
ifeq ($(TARGET_OS), win32)
  EXEEXT=.exe
  OBJEXT=.obj
  LIBEXT=.lib
else
  ifeq ($(TARGET_OS), cygwin)
    EXEEXT=.exe
    OBJEXT=.o
    LIBEXT=.a
  else
    EXEEXT=
    OBJEXT=.o
    LIBEXT=.a
  endif
endif

Then when you define your targets:
foo$(EXEEXT) :

-- Matthew Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre Oliveira da Costa" <costa@cade.com.br>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: RE: [mingw32] Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)


> I'd like to ask for comments on another issue related to portability from
> UNIX --> cygwin, compilation etc.: the way it is now, the linker
> automagically appends a .exe suffix to the executable filename. If you do
> 
> gcc -o foo foo.o
> 
> ld will create foo.exe . I wouldn't complain about it except for the fact
> that this imposes a serious restriction to portability. For example, usually
> when I try to install a just-compiled application through "make install",
> all the cp, mv, chmod, strip and install rules refer to "foo" and not
> "foo.exe", and therefore they (rightfully) complain about missing files. So,
> even if the compilation goes out well,  there's always some makefile
> tweaking involved.
> 
> I don't think tweaking all these applications to look for "foo.exe" if they
> can't find "foo" would be the right thing. But I would really like to be
> able to install the applications I compile without having to tweak all the
> makefiles. Maybe the solution would be not to add the .exe suffix...
> 
> Am I missing something or is this a real problem?
> 
> Andre
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> (costa@cade.com.br)
> 
> 
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