Best practice for building a make file

Question

Background:

I am relatively new to Make and I started building a makefile for my Othello game I recently built. My current makefile is relatively simple. Yet I am lo

Answer 1

For a single folder project I built this Makefile *Note the executable generated has been changed to Game

all: build archive

build: Game

Game: main.o Myothello.o space.o game.o
    clang++ main.o Myothello.o space.o game.o -o Othello

main.o: main.cc
    clang++ -c main.cc

game.o: game.cc
    clang++ -c game.cc

Myothello.o: Myothello.cc
    clang++ -c Myothello.cc

space.o: space.cc
    clang++ -c space.cc

clean:
    rm -f *.o core *.core

archive: main.cc game.cc Myothello.cc space.cc char.h  colors.h game.h 
space.h Myothello.h makefile
    tar -cf archive.tar main.cc game.cc Myothello.cc space.cc char.h  
    colors.h game.h space.h Myothello.h makefile

This works assuming all of your files are in the same directory This is where I found my information

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/makefile/makefile_example.htm

https://www.tecmint.com/18-tar-command-examples-in-linux/

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Simple-Makefile.html

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/make-3.79.1/html_chapter/make_toc.html