DDE26 CModule makefile

There appears to be a problem with the acornc/c++.makefiles.CModule makefile which is illustrated if you try to compile the DDE-Examples.C/C++.CModule example. You need to ensure !Builder hasn’t been seen – which would be the case if you didn’t build your own roms

When you run Mk you get

AMU: failed to read time stamp for 'o.'
AMU: failed to read time stamp for 'o.'

The problem is the line

RES_OBJ     =

in the example’s makefile. Without this line the included CModule makefile needs a rom build environment to build the module as it needs build$path and perl when it tries to build a resources file based on the TARGET name so it fails. With the line you get the error above. So you can’t use the CModule makefile to build a module with just the DDE.

For what it’s worth, the example works with DDE25, so it seems that this issue is new to 26. I wonder what changed!

DDE25’s example still has the blank RES_OBJ line so it appears that your analysis is correct; the issue seems to be with the CModule makefile itself.

I’ve got CModule to build. Just bought DDE 26 and on having the same problem (and Googling this thread). I found that there are instructions on how to build this module standalone in comments within the top of the module source file “CModule.c.CModule”. I was then able to RMLoad the test module and run tm1 to test it.