Question

I’m trying to write a Makefile for a python script, that will create a VMTranslator

executable file, which is supposed to get an input,

meaning this is how it is supposed to be done on shell commands:

1)make <==== should make the VMTranslator executable.

2)VMTranslator BasicTest.vm <==== the user is supposed to use it like this.

i have tried the following according to what i have found online:

#!/usr/local/bin/
    python *$

but it is not working.

the files needed to be included are: codeWriter.py , vmTranslator.py , parser.py .

how can this be done?

Answer 1

The Python binary is an interpreter. It does not create stand-alone executables.

What you can do is to write a Python script that does what you want, as long as the Python executable is present the script can be made to run transparently:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#

import codeWriter
import vmTranslator
import parser

# Add code here to parse arguments and call into the imported code.

Save that as VMTranslator, and make the file executable (chmod +x VMTranslator).