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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Makefile for a single source file
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:13:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140913151320.GA1705@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wUizbPNOVXmO6AeUHhQO6ha7oWaGX4QqbWL4qTss1X2Rg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:34:11PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a single source file which I wrote, implementing a kernel
> module: helloworld.c
> 
> In order to built it, I prepared the following Makefile:
> 
> obj-m += helloworld.o
> 
> all:
>      make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules
> 
> clean:
>      make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean
> 
> 
> 
> Is it ok ? or should the obj-m parameter be *different* than the the
> source file (without the *.o suffix)
> (something like obj-m += hello.o ?)

Does the above work for you?

Have you read the kernel documentation about how to write stand-alone
Makefiles?  It should answer this question for you, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-13 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-13 14:34 Makefile for a single source file Kevin Wilson
2014-09-13 14:36 ` Kristofer Hallin
2014-09-13 14:38   ` Kevin Wilson
2014-09-13 15:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-09-13 15:13 ` Bruno Guedes Souto

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