Hello,
I was posting this already in help-make, and Paul Smith advised me to try it
here. So first my original posting and then a part of the answer of Paul which
is related to UNIX. Maybe someone knows how things are with WinXP.
my original posting:
I would like to start a program by using a make rule. I know that compilers and
so on are all programs. The ones that I want to start do not finish and so
don't send an error code back and as much as I have seen make then just waits
for the error code to come. Here is an example:
my_rule:
program1.exe arg1 arg2
program2.exe arg1 arg2
This should start program1 and leave it running and then start program2 and
leave it running.
But what I see is this:
program1 starts and nothing else happens. When I manually stop program1 then
program2 starts.
Another very good thing would be to have a rule like this:
my_rule:
stop program1
stop program2
If they are not running it should do nothing, maybe the '-' prefix will do this?
(using make 3.81 under WinXP)
part of Pauls answer:
There is no way for make to not wait for a program.
If you had a UNIX system with a normal shell, you could put the process
into the background, like this:
foo:
program1 &
program2 &
(the "&" tells the shell to put the program into the background). You
mentioned you're using Windows, but I don't know if you're using Cygwin
(which has, I believe, a UNIX-style shell) or MingW or whatever. I
don't know how to put a program into the background on Windows.
I don't use Cygwin, as much as I know my GNU stuff is based on MinGW. But I am
not an expert on this.
Thank you for any help
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