View source for Tutorial:Getting started: Compiling your own programs in MSL

* In order to be compiled by ''make'', programs need to be in a specific location and be added to the Makefile.

* For your own programs, the special location is the ''myProgs'' subdirectory.

* Instead of editing the main Makefile, you edit the special ''myProgs.mk'' make file in the ''myProgs'' subdirectory.

* First you need to copy (or move) the ''myProgs/myProgs.mk.RENAME_ME'' to ''myProgs/myProgs.mk'' (this is done so that the distribute file does not conflict with your own customized version.
<source lang="bash">
% cd myProgs
% cp myProgs.mk.RENAME_ME myProgs.mk
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* Then edit the myProgs.mk, adding the name of the program (without the cpp extension) that you have created in the myProg subdirectory (let's say you named it ''halloMSL'')

<source lang="text">
# THIS MAKE FILE IS USED TO MAKE PROGRAMS OR OBJECT THAT DO NOT BELONG 
# TO THE CENTRAL REPOSITIORY WITHOUT ALTERING THE MASTER MAKEFILE
#
# 1) Rename this file to myProgs.mk
#
# 2) Place you own programs (i.e. prog1.cpp prog2.cpp) and objects (Obj1.h, Obj1.cpp) 
#    in the myProgs sub-directory 
#
# 3) Add the program next to the MYPROG definition and the objects next to MYSOURCE
#
# Example:
# for objects Obj1.h/Obj1.cpp and Obj2.h/Obj2.cpp
#
# MYSOURCE   = Obj1 Obj2
#
# for programs prog1.cpp prog2.cpp
#
# MYPROGS    = prog1 prog2
#
# To compile (from the above directory):
# Objects:
#   make objs/Obj1.o
#   make objs/Obj2.o
#
# Programs:
#   make bin/prog1
#   make bin/prog2

MYSOURCE  = 

MYPROGS   = halloMSL

MYHEADERS = 
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* Finally return to the main subdirectory and compile your program
<source lang="bash">
% cd ..
% make helloMSL
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* The program will be compiled in the subdirectory ''bin/''.  To run it
<source lang="bash">
% bin/helloMSL
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