No rule to make target `../lib/Gcc/libCppUTest.a

[milexy86]

Hi,

I'm relative new to cpputest and I'm trying to build an first example analogous to the "/CppUTest/examples" Examples. I'm using MinGW c and c++ compiler on Windows 7 Machine.

So, I have .c source files which are located under folder ./ApplicationLib and the .cpp testfiles which are located under ./AllTests .

The configuration in my makefile is set as follows:

TEST_TARGET = test
COMPONENT_NAME = firstexample
CPPUTEST_HOME = ..
TARGET_PLATFORM = Gcc

CPPUTEST_CXXFLAGS := -g -Wall
CPPUTEST_CXXFLAGS += -DRELEASE_CONFIG=1 -DUTEST -DTARGET_R4

CPPUTEST_CFLAGS:= -DRELEASE_CONFIG=1 -DDIAG_HP_AFE_CHIP_INIT_FAIL=1 -DDIAG_HP_AFE_CHIP_MIRROR_MISSMATCH=2 -DDIAG_HP_AFE_CHIP_MIRROR_CRC_MISSMATCH=3 -DDIAG_HP_AFE_CHIP_SPI_DMA_TIMEOUT=194u -DDIAG_HP_AFE_CHIP_WRITE_TO_INVALID_REG=44 -DDIAG_SW_TIMER_THREE_BUSY=45


CPPUTEST_USE_EXTENSIONS:= Y
CPP_PLATFORM = Gcc

INCLUDE_DIRS =\
  .\
  ApplicationLib\
  $(CPPUTEST_HOME)/include\
 /other include paths to .h files

include $(CPPUTEST_HOME)/build/MakefileWorker.mk

When I run the makefile, all object files are generated within:

C:\CppUTest\examples\objs\Gcc\AllTests

and

C:\CppUTest\examples\objs\Gcc\ApplicationLib

There is also created a lib "libfirstexample.a" within:

C:\CppUTest\examples\lib\Gcc

The first question is, is it right that the makefile should at first create a static library of the CppUTest and CppUTestExt sources (which represent the CppUTest Framework) so that this library can be linked by  the executable. Or should i manually create this library and then put it to the ./lib directory? Some stuff is actually not very clear to me when I take a look into the " MakefileWorker.mk" file.

I get also the following error:

Building archive lib/Gcc/libfirstexample.a
a - objs/Gcc/ApplicationLib/file1.o
a - objs/Gcc/ApplicationLib/file2.o
make: *** No rule to make target `../lib/Gcc/libCppUTest.a', needed by `test'.  Stop.

Have tried to set different variables listed in the MakefileWorker.mk but the problem is each time the same.

Maybe you have some idea?

Thx in advance!

[milexy86]

Have solved this problem by just manually creating a ./lib directory in the CppUtest Root directory and copying the CppuTest.a and CppuTestExt.a to this directory ... :)

[Tibor Koroknai]

This is odd I thought this was a specific problem to my system but it is occurred on Ubuntu 14.04 with autogen.sh and scientific linux with cmake.

[A. Robert S.]

Hi there,

I wouldn't include the cpputest build in the build of any of my projects, unless I had a very good reason (and so far, I never had a good enough reason ;-).

If I were you, I would build CppUTest separately, just once. I don't know whether 'make install' works with MinGW, but I'd give that a shot, too, and otherwise, copy and keep the libraries/headers in a directory suitable for my project.

Regards,
Robert