why is GNU make not filling out the $^ variable here? - c++

I can compile the project just fine if I run the project by hand with g++ source/* -lSDL2 -o bin/fly_fishing. When I do run make, I get
mkdir -p bin
g++ -lSDL2 -o bin/fly_fishing
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: in function `_start':
(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:20: bin/fly_fishing] Error 1
Which tells me that it's not populating from $^ for linking. So what have I missed here? Here's the makefile for reference.
SRC_DIR := source
OBJ_DIR := objects
BIN_DIR := bin
EXE := $(BIN_DIR)/fly_fishing
SRC := $(wildcard $(SRC_DIR)/*.c)
OBJ := $(SRC:$(SRC_DIR)/%.c=$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o)
CXXFLAGS := -Wall
#CFLAGS := -Wall
LDLIBS := -lSDL2a
LDFLAGS :=
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXE)
$(EXE): $(OBJ) | $(BIN_DIR)
$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $#
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC_DIR)/%.c | $(OBJ_DIR)
$(CXX) -c $(CXXFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $#
$(BIN_DIR) $(OBJ_DIR):
mkdir -p $#
clean:
#$(RM) -rv $(BIN_DIR) $(OBJ_DIR)
-include $(OBJ:.o=.d)

Which tells me that it's not populating from $^ for linking.
That seems unlikely. Much more likely would be that $^ expands to nothing. Which would be the case if $(OBJ) expands to nothing. Which seems plausible because I don't see any corresponding objects being built (though perhaps you've omitted that, or they were built on a previous run). And $(OBJ) expanding to nothing implies that $(SRC) expands to nothing.
So what have I missed here?
That $(SRC) expands to nothing is not inconsistent with the data presented. I observe that the manual compilation command you present is
g++ source/* -lSDL2 -o bin/fly_fishing
That does seem to suggest that there are indeed source files in source/, but do they match the pattern source/*.c? Since you're compiling with g++, I bet not. It would be highly unconventional to name C++ source files to end with .c, and surely you would not attempt to compile C source files with a C++ compiler. I infer, then, that your source files are all named with .cpp, or maybe .cc or .C, all of which forms are conventions for C++ source names.
If all your source names follow one or another of those patterns then indeed, this ...
SRC := $(wildcard $(SRC_DIR)/*.c)
... will result in $(SRC) being empty.

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Makefile not giving the expected compilation results

I am quite new to Make. I am attempting to write a Makefile to build a medium-sized Linux C/C++ application as below.
Making a simple Makefile by having all source files in one location and explicitly listing the source files works ok for me but I would like it to be more generic.
I have all my source files (C and C++) in the src folder in different subdirectories. I have header files inside an inc and inc/common folder, and then libs inside a lib folder.
The Makefile is run on the same level :
SRC_DIR := src
OBJ_DIR := obj
BIN_DIR := bin
CXX := /bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-g++
EXE := $(BIN_DIR)/runfile
SRC := $(shell find $(SRC_DIR) -name *.cpp -or -name *.c)
OBJ := $(patsubst $(SRC_DIR)/%,$(OBJ_DIR)/%,$(addsuffix .o,$(basename $(SRC))))
CPPFLAGS := -Iinc -Iinc/common -MMD -MP
CXXFLAGS := -std=c++11 -Wall
LDFLAGS := -Llib
LDLIBS :=
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXE)
$(EXE): $(OBJ) | $(BIN_DIR)
$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $#
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC) | $(OBJ_DIR)
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $#
$(BIN_DIR) $(OBJ_DIR):
mkdir -p $#
clean:
#$(RM) -rv $(BIN_DIR) $(OBJ_DIR)
-include $(OBJ:.o=.d)
I get lots of errors such as below when I run it, including problems opening dependency files. I think i'm almost there, but can't see my error exactly :
compilation terminated.
/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-g++ -Iinc -Iinc/common -MMD -MP -std=c++11 -Wall -c -o obj/main.d.o
cc -Llib obj/main.d.o -o obj/main.d
/usr/bin/ld: obj/main.d.o: relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
/usr/bin/ld: obj/main.d.o: relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
/usr/bin/ld: obj/main.d.o: error adding symbols: file in wrong format
I don't see how the output you show can be generated from the makefile you show here but anyway.
This is not right:
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC) | $(OBJ_DIR)
A pattern rule is a template that tells make "if you want to build a target that matches this pattern, then you can build it from the prerequisites that match this pattern".
Here you are listing ALL your source files as a prerequisite for EVERY object file. Suppose SRC is set to foo.c bar.c biz.c baz.c, then this expands to:
obj/%.o : foo.c bar.c biz.c baz.c | obj
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $#
You're telling make that every single .o target depends on ALL the source files, not just the one for that object file. Further, the automatic variable $< always expands to the first prerequisite, which here will always be foo.c. So, you're compiling foo.c four times, creating each of the object files.
The very first important rule when debugging makefiles is to look carefully at the output (command lines) that make prints. If they are not right, then your makefile is not right. If you do that you'll see all the compile lines are compiling the same source, like:
g++ -c foo.c -o obj/foo.o
g++ -c foo.c -o obj/bar.o
g++ -c foo.c -o obj/biz.o
g++ -c foo.c -o obj/baz.o
That clearly cannot work and it's why you get link errors trying to link together all these object files: they all have the same content.
You need this:
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o : $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp
#mkdir -p $(#D)
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $#
which tells make how to build an object file from a single source file.
You also need to create the actual output directory that the object file will go into. Just creating $(OBJ_DIR) is not enough, if the object file appears in a subdirectory.

C++ Makefile on "complex" tree structure

I have found a lot of related questions, but I was still not able to make my own Makefile.
This makefile is using Mingw64 on Windows, and I want it to run on *nix, currently Debian, but I would like to be able to make it run on Alpine too, as it's used in a Docker container.
The project tree structure is something like :
./
src/
main.cpp
Server.cpp <- use asio and Utils/Split.h
Server.h <- use asio
Utils/
Split.h
lib/
asio/include/ <- asio library (without boost, header only)
Makefile <- That is what I am trying to do right now
Dockerfile
I tried multiple things, here is my latest Makefile (that obviously, does not work) :
NAME := GameServer
CXX := g++
CXXFLAGS := -std=c++2a -DASIO_STANDALONE
SRC_DIR := ./src
LIBS := -I lib/asio-1.18.1/include \
-I lib/rapidjson-1.1.0/include \
-I src
rwildcard = $(wildcard $1$2) $(foreach d,$(wildcard $1*),$(call rwildcard,$d/,$2))
SRCS := $(call rwildcard,$(SRC_DIR),*.cpp)
OBJS := $(SRCS:%.cpp=%.o)
.PHONY: all
all: $(NAME)
$(NAME): $(OBJS)
$(CXX) -o $# $^
$(OBJS): $(SRCS)
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)
Note: the code (.cpp, .h) is valid, it's coming from an already-running project, but built on Visual Studio (compiled with MSVC).
Here are the two functions done my mingw32-make :
g++ -c -o src/Server.o src/main.cpp -I lib/asio/include -I src
g++ -o Server src/main.o src/Server.o
First line : It should builds the .o from the .cpp and adds the include to asio. I added -I src to add src/Utils, but I guess that's not the way of doing it ?
Second line : It should (link ?) the two .o in a single file : the executable.
The errors I am getting with this makefile are :
src/Server.o:main.cpp:(.text+0x36): multiple definition of 'main', src/main.o:main.cpp:(.text+0x36): first defined here (and this, for every .o)
src/main.o:main.cpp:(.text+0x4b): undefined reference to 'Server::Server()' (and this, for every Server methods main calls, even some from asio)
They appears when the second g++ line starts (g++ -o Server src/main.o src/Server.o)
So here are my questions :
What am I doing wrong ?
Is there a better way of trying to make a development environment on Windows and still be able to copy the project in a Docker container (and then compile it with the gcc image) to build it with the same Makefile ?
Sorry if I forgot to mention some details, I am new with Mingw and its environment.
Thank you
Edit : Corrected version :
NAME := GameServer
CXX := g++
CXXFLAGS := -std=c++1z
SRC_DIR := ./src
LIBS := -lwsock32 -lws2_32 \
-I lib/asio-1.18.1/include \
-I lib/rapidjson-1.1.0/include \
-I src
rwildcard = $(wildcard $1$2) $(foreach d,$(wildcard $1*),$(call rwildcard,$d/,$2))
SRCS := $(call rwildcard,$(SRC_DIR),*.cpp)
OBJS := $(SRCS:%.cpp=%.o)
.PHONY: all
all: $(NAME)
$(NAME): $(OBJS)
$(CXX) -o $# $^ $(LIBS)
$(OBJS): $(SRC_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)
Consider the rule...
$(OBJS): $(SRCS)
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)
This tells make that all items in $(OBJS) depend on all items in $(SRCS). But the command...
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)
...always compiles the first dependency as identified by $<. It just so happens that in your case $< is src/main.cpp.
Instead you should probably use a pattern rule such as...
$(SRC_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)
You can also limit the scope of that rule to only those targets specified by $(OBJS) with a full static pattern rule...
$(OBJS): $(SRC_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $# $< $(LIBS)

Confused how my Makefile is remaking object files

My make file is failing to find my include directory when it tries to remake object files. For example, when I call make tests I get the output:
g++ -c -o sdl_class.o sdl_class.cpp
sdl_class.cpp:9:23: fatal error: sdl_class.h: No such file or directory
#include <sdl_class.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [sdl_class.o] Error 1
My Makefile is this:
#Originally from: http://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/courses/tutorials/maketutor/
#But will be heavily modified
IDIR =../include
CC=g++
CFLAGS=-w -I$(IDIR)
#ODIR=obj
LDIR =../lib
LIBS=-lSDL2
_DEPS = sdl_class.h SDL_image.h
DEPS = $(patsubst %,$(IDIR)/%,$(_DEPS))
OBJ = sdl_class.o tests.o
#OBJ = $(patsubst %,$(ODIR)/%,$(_OBJ))
%.o: %.cpp $(DEPS)
$(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS)
tests: sdl_class.o tests.o
$(CC) -o $# $^ $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS)
all: $(OBJ)
$(CC) -o $# $^ $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS)
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -f *.o *~ core $(IDIR)/*~
My understanding is that when I call make tests, that it should attempt to remake the sdl_class.o file. This should then call the %.o rule, which should try to make the object file by calling something like:
g++ -c -o sdl_class.o sdl_class.cpp -w -I../include -lSDL2
However, this is not the case as it looks like it is calling $(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS), as you can see from above.
Do I have a fundamental misunderstanding about how make builds its rules? Seems likely, this is my first Makefile. Perhaps I am confused on how compilation works in general, as I'm somewhat new to that as well.
I would say that the problem is that one or more of the files ../include/sdl_class.h or ../include/SDL_image.h does not exist. Because of that, make is deciding that your pattern rule does not match (because not all the prerequisites can be found or made) and it defaults to the built-in rule to create object files from .cpp files.
The built-in rules use the make variables CXX for the C++ compiler and CXXFLAGS for the C++ flags: the CC and CFLAGS variables are used for the C compiler. That's why your settings for CFLAGS are being ignored.
If you run make -d sdl_class.o you'll see which file make is looking for and why it decides to not use your pattern rule.
If you rewrite your rules like this it will work better:
%.o: %.cpp
$(CC) -c -o $# $< $(CFLAGS)
sdl_class.o tests.o: $(DEPS)
because make will now complain that the relevant files can't be found or created.
There are other issues, of course. You shouldn't be passing $(LIBS) to your compile command; that belongs only in your link line. And, you should probably stick to the standard variables CXX for the C++ compiler, CPPFLAGS for preprocessor flags like -I and -D, and CXXFLAGS for C++ compiler flags. Also, linker library flags like -L../lib go in LDFLAGS and linker libraries like -lSDL2 go in LDLIBS.
CC/CCFLAGS are for C compilation. You should use CXX and CXXFLAGS for C++. They are used in built-in rules and in the LINK.cc macro, making the Makefile much simpler, and thus less error prone.
CXXFLAGS = -Wall ...
prog : foo.o bar.o
$(LINK.cc) -o $# $^
see Default linker setting in Makefile for linking C++ object files

use -lstdc++ in a makefile

here's my error
make
cc msgd.o -o msgd
msgd.o: In function `main':
/home/cam/Desktop/lab1/msgd.cc:37: undefined reference to `Server::Server(int, bool)'
/home/cam/Desktop/lab1/msgd.cc:39: undefined reference to `Server::~Server()'
msgd.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0':
/usr/include/c++/4.7/iostream:75: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()'
/usr/include/c++/4.7/iostream:75: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init()'
msgd.o:(.eh_frame+0x13): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [msgd] Error 1
The first two undefined references to Server:: are bogus, the code works and Server.h is included properly in msgd.cc.
However when I simply do "make server" it runs fine, and when I do "make client" it runs fine, but I want to be able to just do "make" and have it build both.
Here's my makefile. According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/10907227/2080104 I need to include -lstdcc++ but I can't seem to figure out how to do so in a makefile.
# Makefile for socket examples
CXX= g++ $(CCFLAGS)
msgd= msgd.o Server.o Data.o User.o Message.o Str.o
msg= msg.o Client.o Str.o
OBJS = $(msgd) $(msg)
CCFLAGS= -std=c++11 -g
all: msgd Server Data User Message Str msg Client
server:$(msgd)
$(CXX) -o msgd $(msgd)
client:$(msg)
$(CXX) -o msg $(msg)
clean:
rm -f $(OBJS) $(OBJS:.o=.d)
realclean:
rm -f $(OBJS) $(OBJS:.o=.d) msgd msg
# These lines ensure that dependencies are handled automatically.
%.d: %.cc
$(SHELL) -ec '$(CC) -M $(CPPFLAGS) $< \
| sed '\''s/\($*\)\.o[ :]*/\1.o $# : /g'\'' > $#; \
[ -s $# ] || rm -f $#'
include $(OBJS:.o=.d)
You named a variable msgd when you had an object file named msgd.o, and then you got them mixed up. Oh, and you have a target server which doesn't actually build server, it builds msgd.
You have a default target (all) which builds things other than what you want the default target to build.
You want to Make to do something (i.e. use -lstdcc++) when either you don't know how to do it on the command line, or you don't know which part of the makefile corresponds to what you do on the command line.
I'd suggest specific changes to the makefile, but your intent is so unclear I'm afraid I'd do more harm than good.
What happens is that target all requires msgd.
all: msgd Server Data User Message Str msg Client
You don't have a rule for msgd, however, make figures it can build msgd from msgd.o from msgd.cc (or whatever extension your source has) using the built-in rule:
Linking a single object file
n is made automatically from n.o by running the linker (usually called ld) via the C compiler. The precise recipe used is ‘$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) n.o $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS)’.
Your makefile should look more like the following:
CXX := g++
CXXFLAGS := -std=c++11 -g
CPPFLGS :=
LDFLAGS :=
LDLIBS := -g
all : msgd msg
msgd_obj := msgd.o Server.o Data.o User.o Message.o Str.o
msg_obj := msg.o Client.o Str.o
OBJ := ${msgd_obj} ${msg_obj}
msgd : ${msgd_obj}
msg : ${msg_obj}
# The rule to link the executables.
msgd msg :
${CXX} -o $# ${LDFLAGS} $^ ${LDLIBS}
# The rule to compile object files and produce dependencies.
%.o : %.cc
${CXX} -o $# ${CPPFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS} -MD -MP $<
clean:
rm -f $(OBJS) $(OBJS:.o=.d)
realclean:
rm -f $(OBJS) $(OBJS:.o=.d) msgd msg
-include $(OBJS:.o=.d)
.PHONY: all clean realclean
Note that there should not be a specific rule to produce dependencies. Dependencies are produced as a by-product of compilation. On the first run dependencies are unnecessary because everything must be built anyway, on subsequent runs it uses dependencies from the previous run to determine what have changed since.

Makefile: no rule to make target

I was looking for a solution on this site and also tried google for some time now, but somehow I can't get it to work.
My source should be in the src directory and the object files would be in the obj directory. Now I try to create a simple makefie but I either get an error that there is no rule, or I can't make it work to use the directories.
CC = /usr/bin/gcc
CXXFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall -fmessage-length=0
SRC:= nohupshd.cpp \
task.cpp
OBJ:= nohupshd.o \
task.o
OBJDIR:= obj
SRCDIR:= src
DEP:= src/task.h
LIBS:=
TARGET:= nohupshd
all: $(TARGET)
$(TARGET): $(OBJ)
$(CC) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJ) $(LIBS)
clean:
rm -f $(OBJ) $(TARGET)
Variant 1:
$(OBJDIR)/%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) -S $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
$(CC) -c $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
Variant 1a:
%.o: %.cpp
$(CC) -S $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
$(CC) -c $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
When I use this pattern I always get an error that there is no rule for nohupshd.o to build.
Variant 2:
$(OBJ) : $(OBJDIR)/%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) -S $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
$(CC) -c $(SRCDIR)/$< -o $(OBJDIR)/$#
When I use this variant, I can see that it tries to build, but I get errors saying that "file".o doesn't fit the target pattern.
Another issue is that "$<" doesn't give me the source name. According to several sites it should, but I can see in the output that there is nothing, so how can I fix this?
Update:
In the meantime my newest version looks like this:
$(OBJDIR)/$(OBJ) : $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) -S $< -o $(OBJDIR)/`basename $# .o`.asm
$(CC) -c $< -o $#
This now manages to compile the first objectfile (nohupshd.o) but when make tries to do the second file it fails again saying: target 'task.o' doesn't match a pattern.
You actually have a couple if incorrect things above.
First you write My error was, that I was assuming that the pattern %.o matches ANY pattern ending with .o which it doesn't; that's not true. The pattern does match any string ending in .o. However, the pattern character % that is matched on the target side is replaced on the prerequisite side with the identical string. So if you have a target obj/task.o and it matches the pattern %.o then the stem (what the manual calls it) will be obj/task, and when the prerequisite is %.c that means that make will look for a prerequisite obj/task.c. Since there isn't one, and make doesn't know how to build one, that rule is discarded as not applying. When writing pattern rules you must write them so ONLY the identical parts of the names match the pattern character (%). ALL non-identical parts, including directories, must be specified explicitly.
Second, the rule $(OBJ) : $(SRC) is really not right. That line says that each object file depends on all the source files, so whenever any single source file changes all the object files will be recompiled. That's really not what you want (if that IS what you want you don't need make: you can just write a simple shell script). I don't know what you mean by since the rules is empty it invokes the pattern rule; you don't need this to invoke the pattern rule. The target depends on $(OBJ), and each object file depends on its source file (due to the pattern). You don't need this line at all.
Third, I don't know why you are trying to construct .asm files rather than just compiling directly from source to object, but if you really want them it would be cleaner and more "make-like" to create a separate pattern rule to build them: create a pattern rule $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(OBJDIR)/%.asm and a rule $(OBJDIR)/%.asm : $(SRCDIR)/%.c. If you want the ASM files to be products of the build you should declare them as a prerequisite of all or similar, otherwise they'll be deleted as intermediate files.
Fourth, using things like basename is unnecessary. There are lots of automatic make variables that can be used instead. For example, $* expands to the stem, so you could write $(OBJDIR)/$*.asm. Of course if you make a separate pattern rule for ASM files you can just use $# or $< directly. There are various make functions that can also be used; see the manual.
Fifth, you define a variable containing a header file, DEP, but then never use it. Because it's not used, if you change that file nothing would be rebuilt. If you know that all the source files include every header you can use $(OBJ) : $(DEP) to define that; but it does mean (as in the second point above) that any change to any header causes all objects to recompile. You would be better off auto-generating the prerequisites; since you're using GCC this is quite simple.
Sixth, you're using C++ files (xxx.cpp) but you're using the C compiler. This will not work (the link line will fail: although the compiler can see you're compiling a C++ file and do the right thing, even if you call gcc, when you link a bunch of objects together it has no idea if those were C objects or C++ objects (or FORTRAN or whatever) so you MUST use the C++ front-end to link or it won't pull in the right C++ libraries). You should be using the make variable CXX to build C++ code, not CC, and setting it to g++ not gcc.
Seventh, you don't need .SUFFIXES: .c .o to use pattern rules. They are only needed for suffix rules, which you don't have here. You can keep the plain .SUFFIXES: though to disable built-in pattern matching which is a slight performance improvement.
Finally, you'll note you don't actually need the $(SRC) variable because make can infer it from the pattern rules. However, if you wanted to have your makefile less onerous to change, you could construct the contents of the OBJ variable from the SRC variable, like SRC = nohupshd.cpp task.cpp then OBJ = $(patsubst %.c,$(OBJDIR)/%.o,$(SRC)).
So, all-in, this is how I would recommend you write your makefile (I don't include the auto-generated dependencies here though):
.SUFFIXES:
CXX := g++
CXXFLAGS := -O2 -g -Wall -fmessage-length=0
OBJDIR := obj
SRCDIR := src
TARGET := nohupshd
SRC := nohupshd.cpp task.cpp
DEP := src/task.h
LIBS :=
# ----
OBJ := $(patsubst %.cpp,$(OBJDIR)/%.o,$(SRC))
ASM := $(patsubst %.cpp,$(OBJDIR)/%.asm,$(SRC))
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(TARGET) $(ASM)
$(TARGET): $(OBJ)
$(CXX) -o $# $^ $(LIBS)
clean:
rm -f $(OBJDIR)/* $(TARGET)
$(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.asm
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp $< -o $#
$(OBJDIR)/%.asm : $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) -S $< -o $#
Don't repeat the directory names in the compiler line. $< and $# already have the directory names.
$(OBJDIR)/%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) -S $< -o $#
$(CC) -c $< -o $#
So finally I found the answer on how to write this makefile, for an exaplanation of my mistakes look at the posting I marked as correct answer:
The resulting makefile looks like this, and for completeness I post it here including dependencies for header files (remove the ASM parts if you don't need 'em):
.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .o .cpp
.SUFFIXES: .o .d
CC := g++
LNK:= ar
CXXFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall -fmessage-length=0
OBJDIR:= obj
SRCDIR:= src
HDIR:= include
INCLUDE_PATHS:= -Iinclude -Iinclude/interfaces -Iinclude/support
CPP_FILES := propertyfile/propertyfile.cpp \
propertyfile/propertyitem.cpp \
propertyfile/propertyfactory.cpp
OBJ := $(patsubst %.cpp,$(OBJDIR)/%.o, $(CPP_FILES))
SRC := $(patsubst %.cpp,$(SRCDIR)/%.o, $(CPP_FILES))
ASM := $(patsubst %.cpp, $(OBJDIR)/$*.asm, $(CPP_FILES))
LIBS:=
TARGET:= libsupport.a
all: $(TARGET)
$(TARGET): $(OBJ)
#echo "Linking..."
#$(LNK) rvs $(TARGET) $(OBJ)
#cp $(TARGET) ../lib
#cp -r include ..
clean:
rm -f $(OBJ) $(ASM) $(TARGET)
-include $(patsubst %.cpp,$(OBJDIR)/%.d, $(CPP_FILES))
$(OBJDIR)/%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp $(OBJDIR)/%.d
#mkdir -p `dirname $#`
$(CC) $(CXXFLAGS) -S $< -o $(OBJDIR)/$*.asm $(INCLUDE_PATHS)
$(CC) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $# $(INCLUDE_PATHS)
$(OBJDIR)/%.d: $(SRCDIR)/%.cpp
$(CC) $(CXXFLAGS) -MM -MT $# -MF $(OBJDIR)/$*.d -c $< $(INCLUDE_PATHS)
I hope this helps other user. All examples that I found were either extremly simple and listed multiple files individually and not part of a rule, but didn't really explain how it works, or were so complicated that I couldn't find out how it can help me.