Compile c file in Windows

[smorehou]

Hi. I'm NOT a programmer. Sure I'd like to learn all this stuff someday, but for now I'd just like this to work. I've been given a c file and a makefile and some rudimentary instructions for making it... and I've spent hours on Google and installed so many tools (WinAVR, MinGW, CYGWIN) and I keep getting the same thing. Here's the make file (its pretty simple):

#OS ?= LINUX
OS ?= WINDOWS
#OS ?= MACOSX
#OS ?= BSD

ifeq ($(OS), LINUX)  # also works on FreeBSD
CC ?= gcc
CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall
hid_bootloader_cli: hid_bootloader_cli.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -s -DUSE_LIBUSB -o hid_bootloader_cli hid_bootloader_cli.c -lusb


else ifeq ($(OS), WINDOWS)
CC = i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall
hid_bootloader_cli.exe: hid_bootloader_cli.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -s -DUSE_WIN32 -o hid_bootloader_cli.exe hid_bootloader_cli.c -lhid -lsetupapi


else ifeq ($(OS), MACOSX)
CC ?= gcc
SDK ?= /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall
hid_bootloader_cli: hid_bootloader_cli.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DUSE_APPLE_IOKIT -isysroot $(SDK) -o hid_bootloader_cli hid_bootloader_cli.c -Wl,-syslibroot,$(SDK) -framework IOKit -framework CoreFoundation


else ifeq ($(OS), BSD)  # works on NetBSD and OpenBSD
CC ?= gcct
CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall
hid_bootloader_cli: hid_bootloader_cli.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -s -DUSE_UHID -o hid_bootloader_cli hid_bootloader_cli.c


endif


clean:
	rm -f hid_bootloader_cli hid_bootloader_cli.exe

But whatever tool I use, it just skips the "if" stuff and runs the rm command.

I just want to turn that c file into an exe so I can move on :(

Thanks.

[manontheedge]

have you tried copying the file, and then in the copy, deleting everything except for whatever operating system you are on. So, if you are on Windows, only keep the Windows part in the file ...

CC = i586-mingw32msvc-gcc 
CFLAGS ?= -O2 -Wall 
hid_bootloader_cli.exe: hid_bootloader_cli.c 
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -s -DUSE_WIN32 -o hid_bootloader_cli.exe hid_bootloader_cli.c -lhid -lsetupapi 
    
clean: 
    rm -f hid_bootloader_cli hid_bootloader_cli.exe

if you were given this to run, whoever wrote it was trying to make it portable. You don't need the if-else stuff.