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Asked: 2026-06-18T00:25:51+00:00

There is a Implicit rule in Makefiles for C++ files, that use .C or

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There is a Implicit rule in Makefiles for C++ files, that use .C or .cc extension. But I usually have the .cpp file extension for C++ source.

How to use the Implicit rule for Makefile with .cpp files?

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  1. Editorial Team

    See Catalogue of Implicit Rules:

    Compiling C++ programs

    n.o is made automatically from n.cc, n.cpp, or n.C with a recipe of the form ‘$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c’. We encourage you to use the suffix ‘.cc’ for C++ source files instead of ‘.C’.

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