Hi there,

I'm having problems compiling a library object for linking to.
I've got a whole bunch of sources and headers, and they compile together fine to make an application; but I can't work out what I need to do to get gcc to overlook the absence of main() and compile them into a library object...

Any suggestions?

# our tools
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=
AR=ar
ARFLAGS=-cru

# Stick the object names here - they should be unique
OBJECTS = foo.o foo1.o foo2.o

# our target - note that the spaces at the start of the 
# "$(AR) ..." line should actually be a tab character
# $@ gets substituted with the name of the target (i.e. mylibrary)
# $^ gets substituted by the contents of $(OBJECTS)
mylibrary: $(OBJECTS)
        $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $^

# pattern rule for compiling foo.c into foo.o
# again, the spaces before "$(CC)..." should be a tab character
# $< will get substituted with the name of the source file that's
# being compiled at the time
%.o: %.c
        $(CC) -c -o $@ $<