Makefile run processes in background

Question

I have this in my Makefile:

run:
     for x in *.bin ; do ./$$x ; done

such that it launches all executables one by one. I want to do this:

Answer 1

Try to execute via a subshell:

run:
     for x in *.bin ; do (./$$x &); done

Maybe make -j is a better option. Try a Makefile that looks something like this:

BINS = $(shell echo *.bin)

.PHONY: $(BINS)
run: $(BINS)

*.bin:
    ./$@

And then execute with make -j where is number of simultaneous jobs to run.