Hard ro answer in one word. First of all makefile is a text library of
necessary paths and predeclarations needed to compile with gcc.
Also Makefile contains ways of of compiling.
Your question is pretty simple and newsgroups are not for writing books, so
You must read more and ask more detailed questions
robert
On Tuesday 02 of March 2004 05:28, Garret Crisler wrote:
> I have read all I can find pertaining to the make files and can't seem to
> figure out what they are for, and how to use them. I have the complier
> working and the insight program. The procedure is very slow working from
> the dos prompt. I am assuming these make files are used to pull all this
> together. I am running a Window xp system, can someone be kind enough to
> explain these things and give an example for use on the windows platform.
>
> Garret Crisler
