Build commands in makefile utilities do not seem to run

[tommitytom]

What seems to be the problem?

workspace "Foo"
	configurations { "Debug" }
	project "Bar"
		kind "Utility"
		postbuildcommands { "echo Hello" }

$ premake5 gmake2
Building configurations...
Running action 'gmake2'...
Done (35ms).

$ make
==== Building Bar (debug) ====

What did you expect to happen? I expected "Hello" to be printed to the console

What have you tried so far?

$ make
$ make Bar
$ make Bar.make
$ make Bar.make all

Seems to also be an issue with prebuildcommands too. Works as expected with vs2022.

How can we reproduce this? See above.

• [ ] Visual Studio 2022 (vs2022)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2019 (vs2019)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2017 (vs2017)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2015 (vs2015)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2012 (vs2012)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2010 (vs2010)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2008 (vs2008)
• [ ] Visual Studio 2005 (vs2005)
• [ ] GNU Makefile (gmake)
• [x] GNU Makefile 2 (gmake2)
• [ ] XCode (xcode)
• [ ] Codelite
• [ ] Other (Please list below)

What version of Premake are you using? Note that although this says I am using a -dev version, I grabbed it directly from premake-5.0.0-beta2-linux.tar.gz

$ ./premake5 --version
premake5 (Premake Build Script Generator) 5.0.0-dev

Anything else we should know?

$ make -v
GNU Make 4.3
Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

[nickclark2016]

Could you also upload the makefile that was generated?

[tommitytom]

Sure!

Makefile

# Alternative GNU Make workspace makefile autogenerated by Premake

ifndef config
  config=debug
endif

ifndef verbose
  SILENT = @
endif

ifeq ($(config),debug)
  Bar_config = debug

else
  $(error "invalid configuration $(config)")
endif

PROJECTS := Bar

.PHONY: all clean help $(PROJECTS) 

all: $(PROJECTS)

Bar:
ifneq (,$(Bar_config))
	@echo "==== Building Bar ($(Bar_config)) ===="
	@${MAKE} --no-print-directory -C . -f Bar.make config=$(Bar_config)
endif

clean:
	@${MAKE} --no-print-directory -C . -f Bar.make clean

help:
	@echo "Usage: make [config=name] [target]"
	@echo ""
	@echo "CONFIGURATIONS:"
	@echo "  debug"
	@echo ""
	@echo "TARGETS:"
	@echo "   all (default)"
	@echo "   clean"
	@echo "   Bar"
	@echo ""
	@echo "For more information, see https://github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki"

Bar.make

# Alternative GNU Make project makefile autogenerated by Premake

ifndef config
  config=debug
endif

ifndef verbose
  SILENT = @
endif

.PHONY: clean prebuild

SHELLTYPE := posix
ifeq (.exe,$(findstring .exe,$(ComSpec)))
	SHELLTYPE := msdos
endif

# Configurations
# #############################################

define PREBUILDCMDS
endef
define PRELINKCMDS
endef
define POSTBUILDCMDS
	@echo Running postbuild commands
	echo Hello
endef

# File sets
# #############################################


# Rules
# #############################################

all: $(TARGETDIR) $(TARGET)
	@:

$(TARGET): 
	$(PREBUILDCMDS)
	$(PRELINKCMDS)
	$(POSTBUILDCMDS)

$(TARGETDIR):
	@echo Creating $(TARGETDIR)
ifeq (posix,$(SHELLTYPE))
	$(SILENT) mkdir -p $(TARGETDIR)
else
	$(SILENT) mkdir $(subst /,\\,$(TARGETDIR))
endif

clean:
	@echo Cleaning Bar


# File Rules
# #############################################

[EnzoCrisostomo]

I was having the same issue on windows. Running mingw32-make clean then mingw32-make again solved the issue.

Before:

PS E:\Dev\IDJ\pinguim> mingw32-make
"==== Building engine (debug) ===="
"==== Building penguim (debug) ===="

Clean projects:

PS E:\Dev\IDJ\pinguim> mingw32-make clean
Cleaning engine
Cleaning penguim

After:

PS E:\Dev\IDJ\pinguim> mingw32-make      
"==== Building engine (debug) ===="
Creating ../obj/debug-windows-x86/engine
"main.cpp"
"myclass.cpp"
Linking engine
"==== Building penguim (debug) ===="
Creating ../obj/debug-windows-x86/penguim
"main.cpp"
"myclass.cpp"
Linking penguim
Running postbuild commands
copy /B /Y C:\SDL32\bin\*.dll ..\build\debug-windows-x86\penguim
C:\SDL32\bin\SDL2.dll
C:\SDL32\bin\SDL2_image.dll
C:\SDL32\bin\SDL2_mixer.dll
C:\SDL32\bin\SDL2_ttf.dll
        4 arquivo(s) copiado(s).
copy /B /Y ..\build\debug-windows-x86\engine\*.dll ..\build\debug-windows-x86\penguim
..\build\debug-windows-x86\engine\engine_debug.dll
        1 arquivo(s) copiado(s).

[nickclark2016]

Makes me curious if this is a problem with make caching the "build" and thinking that it's already been executed.