MakeFile?

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:19 am

Hi everyone,

Srry if this is a silly question, but, I only want to know how do i build a library using makefiles? I want to use TinyXML (cause IrrXMLReader have some problems reading XML written from IrrXMLWritter), and I really dont know how do i get .lib and .dll files. I only have code, documentation and this MakeFile.

Any help would be appriciated.

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:33 pm

Ok actually, i red that TinyXML should be directly integrated in the project, so the problem is partially solved, i still dont know what is the purpose of makefiles. What they are suposed to do?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:45 pm

makefiles are scripts for use with make.exe !!!

for example you call "make makefile" in the console and then it'll compile the project...
but be sure that make.exe (or maybe mingw32-make.exe) can be found on your system (add the path to your system path)...
and of course you'll have to open the makefile (text editor) and check if all pathes are correct for your system first...

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:12 pm

Thx Acki, this was really helpful.