C Makefile, Compile parts of the project with different rules

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I have a project containing source and header files organized in N folders (let's call them folder1, folder2, ..., folderN)

I want to compile folder1 with -Wall but the rest of them with -w. The problem is that the other folders (2 to N) contain only header files which are included in some of the sources in folder1.

When I compile folder1, -Wall will apply also to the headers in that folder and I do not want that.

This is the makefile I used so far:

CC=gcc
LIBS=-iquotefolder2 ... -iquotefoldern

SOURCES=$(wildcard folder1/*.c) $(wildcard folder2/*.c) ... $(wildcard foldern/*.c)
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.c=.o)

folder1/%.o: folder1/%.c
    $(CC) -Wall $(LIBS) -c -o $@ $^

folder2/%.o: folder2/%.c
    @$(CC) -w $(LIBS) -c -o $@ $^
...

folderN/%.o: folderN/%.c
    @$(CC) -w $(LIBS) -c -o $@ $^

lib.dll: $(OBJECTS)
    @$(CC) -w -shared -Wl,-soname,$@ -o $@ $^

all: lib.dll

Is there any way to achieve this? I also tried to compile folder2 to folderN in a lib.a and link that library while compiling folder1 but gcc will (obviously) try to include the headers

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gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/System-Headers.html (anybody, feel free to write the info here as an actual answer, if it indeed is solution to OPs problem). – hyde
So you want folder1/source.c to be compiled with -Wall but folder2/header.h included by that file with -w? – el.pescado
yes, that's right – Daniel Puiu
please reffer stackoverflow.com/a/22708539/6915174 – Peter K.

1 Answers

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You can't do that with Makefile. Makefile processes only source files, so you can provide flags in Makefile on source file granularity only. In other words, gcc is invoked on source files, and headers are not mentioned in gcc invocations.

However, you can instruct gcc to adjust warnings in different files:

  1. Pass -isystem <dir> flag to gcc - this will make gcc treat headers located dir as system headers. gcc by default does not issue any warnings in system headers.

  2. Use #pragma GCC diagnostic to ignore warnings from source files:

Source:

#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wall"
#include "folder2/bad-header.h"
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop