using a makefile to create an executable file

[Eliot Moss]

On 4/11/2012 7:18 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
>
>
> Eliot Moss wrote:
>>
>> A quick look at the wikipedia page for cmake shows that cmake is
>> a tool that generates a Makefile suitable for the platform at
>> hand. So, I think you need at least these steps:
>>
>
> I am quite sure it would be more beneficial to learn the syntax of makefiles
> and to write simple ones by hand...
> This is not hard, and might be helpful. Miracles (especially the ones you
> don't understand) are dangerous.

I don't disagree.  It just appears that the professor set up
the code to use cmake, whose purpose is to generate a makefile
suitable to the platform at hand.  It would be inappropriate
to tinker with the makefile since the intention is for it to
be generated automatically ...

Regards -- EM

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