Hello everyone. Its nice to meet you all!

Unfortunately I've been working very hard to no avail to compile my first ever SWR mud.

I plan to use this solely to build complex level projects and then be able to build offline for other SWR Muds that are looking for projects.

That aside...

My problem I guess is getting the swr.exe to actually appear AND also remain there!

What's very strange is that I receive no errors in the compile (I'm using CYGWIN by the way), and the swr.exe appears momentarily before disappearing again!

I thank you for all of your help in advance. I can't give up now!!! Hehe

Here is my makefile source:

CC = gcc
PROF =
NOCRYPT =

#Uncomment the line below if you are getting undefined references to dlsym, dlopen, and dlclose.
#Comment it out if you get errors about ldl not being found.
NEED_DL = -ldl

#Uncomment if using CYGWIN to compile with
CYGWIN_FLAG = -DCYGWIN

#Some systems need this for dynamic linking to work.
EXPORT_SYMBOLS = -export-dynamic

C_FLAGS = -g2 -Wall $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS) $(CYGWIN_FLAG) $(PROF) $(NOCRYPT) $(DBUGFLG) $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS)
L_FLAGS = $(PROF) $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS) $(CYGWIN_FLAG) $(NEED_DL) -lz -g2

#Comment out to disable cargo
USECARGO = 1

ifdef USECARGO
C_FLAGS := $(C_FLAGS) -DUSECARGO
endif


C_FILES = 11.c act_comm.c act_info.c act_move.c act_obj.c act_wiz.c boards.c \
bounty.c build.c changes.c clans.c color.c comm.c comments.c \
const.c copyover.c db.c editor.c fight.c finfo.c force.c \
fskills.c functions.c handler.c hashstr.c hunter.c interp.c keb.c \
magic.c makeobjs.c marriage.c md5.c mccp.c misc.c mud_comm.c \
mud_prog.c newarena.c pfiles.c planets.c player.c renumber.c reset.c \
save.c ships.c shops.c skills.c slay.c slicers.c slotm.c \
space.c special.c swskills.c tables.c tech.c track.c update.c


O_FILES := $(patsubst %.c,o/%.o,$(C_FILES))

H_FILES = $(wildcard *.h)

ifdef CYGWIN_FLAG
SWR = swr.exe
else
SWR = swr
endif

SWR_OLD = ../bin/swr_old.exe
COPYFILE = ../bin/cygwin/copyfile

all:
$(MAKE) -s swr

# pull in dependency info for *existing* .o files
-include dependencies.d

swr: $(O_FILES)
rm -f $(SWR)
ifdef CYGWIN_FLAG
echo "Generating dependency file ...";
$(CC) -MM $(C_FLAGS) $(C_FILES) > dependencies.d
perl -pi -e 's.^([a-z]).o/$$1.g' dependencies.d
dlltool --export-all --output-def swr.def $(O_FILES)
dlltool --dllname $(SWR) --output-exp swr.exp --def swr.def
$(CC) -o $(SWR) $(O_FILES) swr.exp $(L_FLAGS)
else
$(CC) -o $(SWR) $(O_FILES) $(L_FLAGS)
endif
echo " ";
echo "Done compiling mud.";
chmod g+w $(SWR)
chmod a+x $(SWR)
chmod g+w $(O_FILES)
ifdef CYGWIN_FLAG
./$(COPYFILE)
endif
mv $(SWR) ../bin

clean:
ifdef CYGWIN_FLAG
rm -f o/*.o ../bin/other/swr.def ../bin/cygwin/swr.exp
chmod g+w $(COPYFILE)
chmod a+x $(COPYFILE)
./$(COPYFILE)
# $(MAKE) all
else
rm -f o/*.o $(SWR_OLD) ../bin/$(SWR) ../bin/${SWR}.exe ../bin/win/swr.def ../bin/cygwin/swr.exp
# $(MAKE) all
endif


purge:
ifdef CYGWIN_FLAG
rm -f o/*.o ../bin/cygwin/swr.def ../bin/cygwin/swr.exp dependencies.d
else
rm -f o/*.o $(SWR_OLD) $(SWR) ../bin/cygwin/swr.def ../bin/cygwin/swr.exp
endif


o/%.o: %.c
# echo " Compiling $@....";
echo " $@";
$(CC) -c $(C_FLAGS) $< -o $@

.c.o: mud.h
$(CC) -c $(C_FLAGS) $<


-- End Makefile -- (This line is not in the source haha)

Thank you for your help! I sincerely hope I can get this working so I can begin building worlds again Is there anything strange you see here that might be causing the swr.exe to appear and then disappear again?

-Gradium

GradiumX@yahoo.com

You sure that's not just because it moved itself to the bin directory where the Makefile wants it when its done?

Heh. This was crossposted to Nick's forums and we both suggested the same thing.

Oh my goodness!! Hahaha, I didn't even consider the bin folder!!! *facepalm*

Thanks for awakening me from my first conscious level of newbishness!!

I will commence testing!!!

You sir are awesome!!

Thank you so much