How to ensure a target is run before all the other build rules in a makefile?

If you're sure that's really what you want, here's one way to do it: have a rule for a dummy file which the makefile will include .

Actually, other cpp files don't depend on the generated one (in terms of Make rules). Dependency graph still looks like.

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