Question

I am using the gcc compiler.

My project source tree looks like somewhat like this

test$~: tree .
.
|-- folder
|   |-- hello.cpp 
|   `-- hello.h
`-- main.cpp

1 directory, 3 files
test$~: 

The file main.cpp contains the main() function and all the functions invoked by main.cpp
lie in the directory named folder

So far in all my little projects I never had to put some source code under a sub-directory.

What I am looking for, in short, is some gcc command for recursive compilation in sub-directories and their subdirectories and so on… This command should be invoked from the
home directory of the code project.

Answer 1

I couldn’t really test it on a c++ library as I don’t have one currently, but this should work:

find . -type f -iname *.cpp -execdir g++ {} \;

I just don’t remember what happens when the -o option is omitted for gcc. If its necessary then this will at least bring a you a bit closer to a solution. I would recommend using makefiles instead though