Re^2: pp only to create executable when source has changed

[gepebril69]

Thx for the help

I'm not sure what you mean by this, I'm creating multiple executables. Every executable is doing it's own task and its started on a regular basis by the Windows taskmanager. Although the scripts are several hundred lines of code it takes easily 45 minutes to build the corresponding executable. I created a batch script to create all executables, what I like to see that it only creates new executables if the related source .pl file has changed

Is that possible with make? Does it record the creation date of the source?

[Athanasius]

Is that possible with make?

Yes. From Make_(software)#Behavior:

Make is typically used to build executable programs and libraries from source code. Generally though, any process that involves transforming a source file to a target result (by executing arbitrary commands) is applicable to Make.

Does it record the creation date of the source?

No, it doesn’t need to:

Make decides whether a target needs to be regenerated by comparing file modification times. This solves the problem of avoiding the building of files which are already up to date... (idem)

You can build GNU Make for various platforms, including Windows.

Hope that helps,