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From: | Martin Mensch |
Subject: | start and stop a program by make |
Date: | Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:11:16 +0200 |
Hello,
I was posting this already in help-make, and Paul
Smith advised me to try it here. So first my original posting and then a part of
the answer of Paul which is related to UNIX. Maybe someone knows how things are
with WinXP.
my original posting:
I would like to start a program by using a make
rule. I know that compilers and so on are all programs. The ones that I want to
start do not finish and so don't send an error code back and as much as I have
seen make then just waits for the error code to come. Here is an
example:
my_rule:
program1.exe arg1 arg2 program2.exe arg1 arg2 This should start program1 and leave it running and
then start program2 and leave it running.
But what I see is this: program1 starts and nothing else happens. When I manually stop program1 then program2 starts. Another very good thing would be to have a rule
like this:
my_rule:
stop program1 stop program2 If they are not running it should do nothing, maybe
the '-' prefix will do this?
(using make 3.81 under WinXP)
part of Pauls answer:
There is no way for make to not wait for a
program.
If you had a UNIX system with a normal shell, you
could put the process
into the background, like this: foo:
program1 & program2 & (the "&" tells the shell to put the program
into the background). You
mentioned you're using Windows, but I don't know if you're using Cygwin (which has, I believe, a UNIX-style shell) or MingW or whatever. I don't know how to put a program into the background on Windows. I don't use Cygwin, as much as I know my GNU stuff
is based on MinGW. But I am not an expert on this.
Thank you for any help
Martin
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