Thread: .exe extension on Windows

Can somebody confirm how the executable extensions behave on
Windows/Cygwin? It seems that the following is true:

cc -o foo ...

creates a file `foo.exe'.

cc -o foo.exe ...

also creates a file `foo.exe'. Is that correct?

It also seems that the make targets need to be written like

pg_passwd$(X):

rather than

pg_passwd:

because otherwise you're not really updating the target of the rule.


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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:41:12 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

> Can somebody confirm how the executable extensions behave on
> Windows/Cygwin? It seems that the following is true:
>
> cc -o foo ...
>
> creates a file `foo.exe'.
>
> cc -o foo.exe ...
>
> also creates a file `foo.exe'. Is that correct?

 Yes.

> It also seems that the make targets need to be written like
>
> pg_passwd$(X):
>
> rather than
>
> pg_passwd:
>
> because otherwise you're not really updating the target of the rule.

 I agreed this.
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