[ShyGuy91284]

I go to a university, and when logged into the university's computers, I generate a Makefile with a program called makemake (which I think is something made here for our courses), and make it from there. I've tried compiling stuff I've developed using XCode, and it compiles ok, but it spits out an object file in the build directory, and not an executable program. Anyone know how to make it generate an executable instead of an object? (Everything I'm making is CLI based).

[Chuckit]

Object files are executable. That's what an object file is in the context of a compiler — compiled code. Have you tried running it?

[Thinine]

I'm not really sure, but aren't object files unlinked executables? So I don't think it would work. I'm think he needs to add a linking step to his makefile. But I don't really know.

[ShyGuy91284]

It compiles and runs from XCode, but I'd like to "./executable <variables>" on the command line. And is there an easy way to specify variables for the test run in XCode?

[Chuckit]

Does this work?

[ShyGuy91284]

Thanks, that helps me with how to use command line arguments within XCode. I just realized that when running the executable, i was going to far into the build directory (down to into ppc). I know where the executalbe is now. Thanks anyways.