Very simple application fails with “multiple target patterns” from Eclipse

Question

Since I\'m more comfortable using Eclipse, I thought I\'d try converting my project from Visual Studio. Yesterday I tried a very simple little test. No matter what I try,

Answer 1

On Cygwin, GNU make version 3.81-1 delivered by the default setup program doesn't work with the automatic header file dependencies, generated by the compilers. The error message you will see because of this bug will look something like this:

Here are two suggested fixes: - Try to obtain the previous version (3.80) - Obtain a fixed 3.81 version, for example from http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe

src: https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/current-issues

Simply replace the make file in your "C:\cygwin\bin\" folder (or wherever cygwin is installed) with the "fixed" make file mentioned above.