[FIXED] Netbeans remote deployment on raspberrypi returns "make: Makefile: No such file or directory"

Issue

I was trying to run classic Blink program on raspberrypi by remotely deploying the code. This is the output that i got.

cd '/home/pi/Documents/netbeansProject/'
/usr/bin/make -f Makefile CONF=Debug
make: Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 'Makefile'.  Stop.

All the files of the project

• All that i got to know after searching about this is make is not able to find the make file named 'Makefile' but i already have it in the project in the 'Important Files' section. Still make cannot find it..
• Now i tried to run a sample project following netbeans tutorial it also returns similar output.

cd '/home/pi/Documents/netbeansProject/Welcome_1/'
/usr/bin/make -f Makefile CONF=Debug
make: Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 'Makefile'.  Stop.

• The difference that i noticed from the tutorial is that i didn't get "Copying project files to..." in the output. Could it be that the Makefile never got to the rasberrypi and that's why it can't find it?
• I tried opening remote terminal tab and Netbeans gave error 'Local terminal is not supported on this system' even though i was opening a remote terminal. Although i can ssh into raspberrypi through local terminal easily. (Even with terminal provided in Netbeans)

Solution

So I did this and the issue is resolved

Project properties > Build > Build host > Host configuration check > Selected the host > Properties > Access project files via

and then selected SFTP(it was System level file sharing earlier) .

I don't know the difference between the two yet, but it worked for me. As i noted earlier, the files weren't copying to the remote host with SFTP.

Answered By - happy_san
Answer Checked By - Pedro (JavaFixing Volunteer)