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The
pmake
program is a make utility. This means that it takes a directory of sources and a makefile which contains knowledge of how to turn these sources into geodes. If there were no
pmake
, then you would have to type goc, bcc, and glue each time.
The
pmake
program will work correctly if you have set up your files correctly. This means that you must have a makefile. You should run
mkmf
to generate a makefile that knows how to generate geodes. If you are an experienced C programmer, you may have come up with some customizations that you use with your make utility. We still suggest that you work from a standard makefile (which knows about Goc and Glue), but include your customizations in a
local.mk
file (see How to Customize pmake
).
When you have just added or removed source files from a geode, you will have to generate new dependency information, which
pmake
will use when doing other makes. You can use
pmake
to generate this information (it will make an appropriate call to the
makedpnd
program; it will store the result in
depends.mk
):
pmake depend
Once you have created your source and make files, all you need to do to invoke
pmake
is type
pmake
The
pmake
tool can be used to construct a specific target. Thus, if you need to generate an .OBJ file but do not need the rest of the geode, you may type something like:
pmake sdtrk.obj
The system makefiles have been set up with knowledge of some special targets. If you are making a library and wish to install it in the proper directory so that all applications may use it, then signal this to
pmake
:
pmake lib
The
pmake
program does have command-line arguments, but these are used only rarely; they are detailed below.
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