If you want the debug files, you must compile all of the components with -g
.
The crude way to do this would be to add -g
to every object rule:
all: main.o sort.o bubble.o quickSort.o rbs.o
g++ -g -o main *.o -Wall -O2
main.o: main.cpp
g++ -c -g main.cpp
sort.o: sort.cpp sort.h
g++ -c -g sort.cpp
bubble.o: bubble.cpp bubble.h
g++ -c -g bubble.cpp
quickSort.o: quickSort.cpp quickSort.h
g++ -c -g quickSort.cpp
rbs.o: rbs.cpp rbs.h
g++ -c -g rbs.cpp
But that doesn't leave you the option of building without debug information. And there's a lot of redundancy in this makefile. Let's take this in stages. First, we put in automatic variables to simplify the rules:
all: main.o sort.o bubble.o quickSort.o rbs.o
g++ -g -o main $^ -Wall -O2
main.o: main.cpp
g++ -c -g $<
sort.o: sort.cpp sort.h
g++ -c -g $<
bubble.o: bubble.cpp bubble.h
g++ -c -g $<
quickSort.o: quickSort.cpp quickSort.h
g++ -c -g $<
rbs.o: rbs.cpp rbs.h
g++ -c -g $<
Now we see that all of the *.o rules have the same command, which reminds us that Make already knows how to build foo.o from foo.cpp, with a command that looks like:
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c
So all we have to do is add -g
to CXXFLAGS
, and we can omit the commands entirely:
CXXFLAGS += -g
all: main.o sort.o bubble.o quickSort.o rbs.o
g++ -g -o main $^ -Wall -O2
sort.o: sort.h
bubble.o: bubble.h
quickSort.o: quickSort.h
rbs.o: rbs.h
Now that that's in order, we can set up two top-level targets, main
and debug
, and change CXXFLAGS
only for the latter:
debug: CXXFLAGS += -g
main debug: main.o sort.o bubble.o quickSort.o rbs.o
g++ -g -o $@ $^ -Wall -O2
sort.o: sort.h
bubble.o: bubble.h
quickSort.o: quickSort.h
rbs.o: rbs.h
You can improve this even more, but that should get you started.