g++: No such file or directory? - c++

Question

(On Linux, trying to set up SDL) I'm having a time with makefiles, I'm finding them hard to learn. Here is the error I'm getting.
g++: error: game.exe: No such file or directory
make: *** [game.exe] Error 1
Here is my makefile. (Any suggestions on making it better would be great. I've just kind of slapped together whatever I could find to work.)
#Game Make file
TARGET = game.exe
OBJS = App.o\
App_OnInit.o\
App_OnEvent.o\
App_OnLoop.o\
App_OnRender.o \
App_OnCleanup.o\
SDL_CFLAGS := $(shell sdl-config --cflags)
SDL_LDFLAGS := $(shell sdl-config --libs)
CFLAGS = -Wall -o
LIBS =
LDFLAGS =
$(TARGET): $(OBJS)
g++ $(CFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) $# $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(SDL_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
%.o: src/%.cpp
g++ -c $(SDL_CFLAGS) $< $(SDL_LDFLAGS)
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -f $(TARGET) $(OBJS)

Answer 1

You could either exchange $(CFLAGS) and $(SDL_CFLAGS) in the rule to make $(TARGET) or better remove -o from CFLAGS and put it directly before $#:
...
CFLAGS = -Wall
...
$(TARGET): $(OBJS)
g++ $(CFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) -o $# $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(SDL_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
-o option should immediately precede the name of the executable file to be produced. In your original Makefile it is part of $(CFLAGS) and is followed by the C flags of the SDL library. Therefore the compiler tries to link in game.exe (the $#) instead of producing an executable file by that name.