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CDT clean in makefile not working [message #1697741]

Mon, 08 June 2015 02:45

Dominic Veconi

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Registered: June 2015

Junior Member

I've just downloaded eclipse CDT and I'm writing programs in C++ using eclipse. My toolchain is MinGW GCC. Here's my makefile:

all: sunnymountains.exe

clean:
rm -f main.o sunnymountains.exe

sunnymountains.exe: main.o
g++ -g -o sunnymountains main.o

main.o:
g++ -c -g main.cpp

sunnymountains.exe is the name of the application I'm writing. The issue is, if I edit main.cpp (the source code for sunnymountains) and then build the program, the old main.o and sunnymountains.exe files remain, and the application runs as if it had never been edited. Shouldn't my "clean" statement in the makefile take care of that? What do I have to write in the makefile to ensure that eclipse will clear out the old main.o and sunnymountains.exe files before building a new edit of the application?

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