Okay, I'm trying to figure out how to write a makefile. I first found a long and awful tutorial on how to write one from scratch... Then I got directed to simply make, automake, configure, autoconf. Then to somehow getting configure.ac files... I'm getting super lost, I am not getting anywhere on google. I even thought I found a way for Emacs to do it for me... Can anyone give me a good place to start? Tutorials? Advice? (Btw: I am using the make file with Intel's C++ Linux compiler, I am using Emacs to code in.)

Well I checked up on that, and I got somewhere.

I am trying to use a makeFile to compile the one line "Hello World" app.

This is my make file:
#(tabs before system commands, yes I know)
# lab1.make -- this is a comment line, ignored by make utility
all: Hello
lab1.out : Hello.o
icc -no-ipo -o lab1.out Hello.o
# above, we are saying lab1.out depends on main1.o, mylib.o and openfile.o
# and to create lab1.out we give the g++ command as shown on the next line

# which starts with a TAB although you cannot see that .
# note that the command : g++ -o lab1.out main1.o mylib.o openfile.o
# creates an executable file named lab1.out from the 3 object files respectively.
Hello.o: Hello.cpp
icc -c Hello.cpp
clean:
rm *.o
# above we are stating how to run the rule for clean, no dependencies,
# what we want is when we ask to do a "make -f lab1.make clean"
# that will not do anything except remove executable and object files
# so we can "clean out" our directory of unneeded large files.
# we only do a make clean when we want to clean up the files.

# END OF MAKE FILE


These are my errors:
make: *** No rule to make target `hello', needed by `all'. Stop.
halsafar@localhost:/share/Cpp/HelloWorld$ make -f MakeFile
icc -c Hello.cpp
cc Hello.o -o Hello
Hello.o(.text+0x19): In function `main':
Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `__intel_proc_init'
Hello.o(.text+0x1e):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x25):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x35):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x4c):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x58):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x61):Hello.cpp: more undefined references to `std::cout' follow
Hello.o(.text+0xe0): In function `main':
Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::clear(std::_Iosb<int>::_Iostate, bool)'
Hello.o(.text+0xeb):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0xf4):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x112):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x11b):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x135):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x13c):Hello.cpp: more undefined references to `std::cout' follow
Hello.o(.text+0x24f): In function `main':
Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::clear(std::_Iosb<int>::_Iostate, bool)'
Hello.o(.text+0x25d):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::uncaught_exception()'
Hello.o(.text+0x2b1):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::clear(std::_Iosb<int>::_Iostate, bool)'
Hello.o(.text+0x300):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `__cxa_begin_catch'
Hello.o(.text+0x321):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::clear(std::_Iosb<int>::_Iostate, bool)'
Hello.o(.text+0x329):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_catch'
Hello.o(.text+0x333):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `__cxa_end_catch'
Hello.o(.text+0x395):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x3ae):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x3d2):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x3e3):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x3fa):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::cout'
Hello.o(.text+0x4b6): In function `__sti__$E':
Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()'
Hello.o(.text+0x4c5):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init()'
Hello.o(.text+0x4d4):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::_Winit::_Winit()'
Hello.o(.text+0x4e3):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::_Winit::~_Winit()'
Hello.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZNSo6sentryD1Ev[.gnu.linkonce.t._ZNSo6sentryD1Ev]+0x1a): In function `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >::sentry::~sentry()':
Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::uncaught_exception()'
Hello.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZNSo6sentryD1Ev[.gnu.linkonce.t._ZNSo6sentryD1Ev]+0x72):Hello.cpp: undefined reference to `std::ios_base::clear(std::_Iosb<int>::_Iostate, bool)'
Hello.o(.eh_frame+0x12): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Hello] Error 1




Hello.cpp compiles fine if I:
icc Hello.cpp

Try replacing lab1.out with hello.

SHELL = /bin/sh
CC = g++
OBJECTS = hello.o

all : hello

hello : $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) $(OBJECTS) -o $@

hello.o :
$(CC) -c hello.cpp

Here is a pretty good tutorial on writing makefiles.

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/

Most of your errors don't seem to be to do with your makefile as such, rather due to not passing in the correct libraries to gcc. I.e., if you use the same commands to compile and link manually, the errors will probably still appear.