# Modify Your makefile

If you use makefiles to build your GCC* application, you need to change the value for the GCC compiler variable to use the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic. You may also want to review the options specified by `CFLAGS`. For example, a sample GCC makefile:

    # Use gcc compiler
      CC = gcc

    # Compile-time flags
      CFLAGS = -O2 -std=c99
    all: area_app

    area_app: area_main.o area_functions.o
        $(CC) area_main.o area_functions.o -o area

    area_main.o: area_main.c
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) area_main.c

    area_functions.o: area_functions.c
        $(CC) -c -fno-asm $(CFLAGS) area_functions.c

    clean: rm -rf *o area

## Modified makefile for the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic

In this example, the name of the compiler is changed to use icc

    # Use Intel C/C++ Compiler
      CC = icc

    # Compile-time flags
      CFLAGS = -std=c99
    all: area_app

    area_app: area_main.o area_functions.o
        $(CC) area_main.o area_functions.o -o area

    area_main.o: area_main.c
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) area_main.c

    area_functions.o: area_functions.c
        $(CC) -c -fno-asm $(CFLAGS) area_functions.c

    clean: rm -rf *o area

If your GCC code includes features that are not supported with the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic (compiler options, language extensions, macros, pragmas, and so on), you can compile those sources separately with GCC if necessary.

In the above makefile, area_functions.c is an example of a source file that includes features unique to GCC. Because the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic uses the O2 option by default and GCC uses option O0 as the default, we instruct GCC to compile at option O2. We also include the -fno-asm switch from the original makefile because this switch is not supported with the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic. The following sample makefile is modified for using the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic and GCC together:

    # Use Intel C/C++ Compiler
      CC = icc
    # Use gcc for files that cannot be compiled by icc
      GCC = gcc
    # Compile-time flags
      CFLAGS = -std=c99
    all: area_app

    area_app: area_main.o area_functions.o
        $(CC) area_main.o area_functions.o -o area

    area_main.o: area_main.c
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) area_main.c

    area_functions.o: area_functions.c
        $(GCC) -c -O2 -fno-asm $(CFLAGS) area_functions.c

    clean: rm -rf *o area

Output of make using a modified makefile:

    icc -c -std=c99 area_main.c
    gcc -c -O2 -fno-asm -std=c99 area_functions.c
    icc area_main.o area_functions.o -o area

Use IPO in Makefiles

By default, IPO generates "dummy" object files containing Interprocedural information used by the compiler. To link or create static libraries with these object files requires special Intel-provided tools. To use them in your makefile, simply replace references to "ld" with "xild" and references to "ar" with "xiar", or use `icc` to link as shown in the example:

    # Use Intel C/C++ Compiler
      CC = icc
    # Compile-time flags
      CFLAGS = -std=c99 -ipo
    all: area_app

    area_app: area_main.o area_functions.o
        $(CC) area_main.o area_functions.o -o area

    area_main.o: area_main.c
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) area_main.c

    area_functions.o: area_functions.c
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) area_functions.c

    clean: rm -rf *o area

Parent topic: Port from GCC* to the Intel® C++ Compiler Classic