Makefile Updated – 1) No Need to Modify main.f any more; 2) A Single Makefile; 3) 64-bit Build

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The Makefile is updated again. Main changes are:

1. Don’t compile modparm.f any more to keep SWAT codes unchange.
2. Don’t generate separated Makefiles for debug and release any more. A single Makefile is generated instead to include four make targets: debug32, debug64, rel32 and rel64, which matches the four official SWAT executables.
3. 64-bit build added to the Makefile.

No Need to Modify main.f any more

In previous version of Makefile, to compile SWAT successfully, the first line of main.f (include ‘modparm.f’) must be comment/deleted, which is not so convenient but not so bad.

It has been found that the problem is in the compilation of modparm.f and main.f. The parm.mod would be generated when either modparm.f or main.f is compiled. The key here is the effect of include statement., which could be found in gnu website.

The effect of the INCLUDE directive is as if the included text directly replaced the directive in the source file prior to interpretation of the program.

So, include ‘modparm.f’ means adding all the contents of modparm.f to main.f, i.e. all the variables are also defined in main.f. If both of modparm.f and main.f are compiled to object files and used to in the link operation, all the variables would be defined twice and the linker would give error message shown below.

Solution is just very simple: don’t compile modparm.f at all. Thus, all the variable would be just defined in main.f and include ‘modparm.f’ doesn’t need to be comment/deleted.

A Single Makefile

The new Makefile would be put in the source codes folder rather than the debug and release folder. Sub-folders (debug32, debug64, rel32 and rel64) would be created to hold all the object files and mod file. The final executable files will be in the source codes folder and given different name similar as official SWAT executables. More details are list in the following table.

Command	32-bit or 64-bit	debug or release	executable name	Comment
make debug32	32	debug	swat_debug32
make debug64	64	debug	swat_debug64	Doesn’t support by MinGW
make rel32	32	release	swat_rel32
make rel64	64	release	swat_rel64	Doesn’t support by MinGW

64-bit Build

64-bit build is added to the Makefile though flag -m64, although MinGW doesn’t support it. To compile 6-bit SWAT, either use MinGW-w64 or Rtools instead. More details would be published shortly in an integrated document.

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