C makefile, in CCS, "The system cannot find the file specified"

Question

I am new to makefiles, so please bear with me. I tried to edit an automatically generated makefile in Code Composer Studios, but I'm getting an error. Here is an excerpt from the makefile

# All Target
all: makefile_project_test1.out
    @echo ''
    @echo '============================'
    @echo 'APPLICATION BUILD SUCCESSFUL'
    @echo '============================'
    @echo ''
    @myfaketarget

# Other Targets
.PHONY: myfaketarget
myfaketarget:
    echo "TEST MY FAKE TARGET"

And here is the error message that prints out.

process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, myfaketarget, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.

gmake: *** [all] Error 2

Can anyone shed some light on this, and help me to get this to compile cleanly? Thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '14 at 15:37

The @myfaketarget line is a command line. You are telling make to run a system command with the name myfaketarget. That isn't a binary/application/etc. though so the system (Windows) cannot do that.

If you want the myfaketarget target to be run as a prerequisite of the all target then you want to list it next to makefile_project_test1.out on the all: makefile_project_test1.out line.

If you want that target to be run after the rest of that all body is run (i.e. where that @myfaketarget line is) then you need to manually run make myfaketarget yourself (possibly as $(MAKE) myfaketarget depending on make version).

That was it! Thank you! My intention was to have that run in the middle of the body of "all". $(MAKE) myfaketarget did the trick! Thanks! — Matthew Harding, Dec 01 '14 at 16:20

C makefile, in CCS, "The system cannot find the file specified"

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