Generic Makefiles

Tired of editing your makefile for every .c file you add/remove/rename in your project?
Tired of having to recompile everything to be safe after any .h file modification?
Tired of reading the gmake manual to decipher the makefile language?

Just drop a Generic Makefiles in your source directory, type make all, et voilà!

Example

~/C/YourProject> ls -l
total 24
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc           58 Mar  3 18:11 global.h
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc          119 Mar  3 18:18 main.c
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc           42 Mar  3 18:04 one.c
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc           66 Mar  3 18:11 one.h
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc           42 Mar  3 18:04 two.c
-rw-r--r--    1 marc     marc           66 Mar  3 18:09 two.h
~/C/YourProject> cp ../GenericMakefiles-0.3.1/GNUmakefile_C Makefile
~/C/YourProject> make all
Makefile:208: main.d: No such file or directory
Makefile:208: one.d: No such file or directory
Makefile:208: two.d: No such file or directory
rm -f ./a.out ./Last_make_goal_was_* ./main.o ./one.o ./two.o ./main.d ./one.d ./two.d
touch Last_make_goal_was_all
/bin/sh -ec 'gcc -MM -I.  two.c |\
sed '\''s@\(two\)\.o[ :]*@./\1.o two.d: $(goal_flag_file) @g'\'' > two.d;\
[ -s two.d ] || rm -f two.d'
/bin/sh -ec 'gcc -MM -I.  one.c |\
sed '\''s@\(one\)\.o[ :]*@./\1.o one.d: $(goal_flag_file) @g'\'' > one.d;\
[ -s one.d ] || rm -f one.d'
/bin/sh -ec 'gcc -MM -I.  main.c |\
sed '\''s@\(main\)\.o[ :]*@./\1.o main.d: $(goal_flag_file) @g'\'' > main.d;\
[ -s main.d ] || rm -f main.d'
gcc -c main.c -I. -s  -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -ansi -pedantic -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer   -o main.o
gcc -c one.c -I. -s  -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -ansi -pedantic -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer   -o one.o
gcc -c two.c -I. -s  -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -ansi -pedantic -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer   -o two.o
gcc main.o one.o two.o -o a.out -s -lm 
~/C/YourProject> ./a.out
Hello 1 2
~/C/YourProject> 

The generic makefile has automatically:

• found all .c files;
• calculated all dependencies;
• compiled .c files into .o files;
• linked .o files to produce an a.out executable.

Besides all, the following goals are provided:

The makefile is customizable by editing the following variables:

License

This software is released under the GNU General Public License.

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Changelog

Version 0.3.1

• Simplified the documentation.

Version 0.3

• Added a list goal to show compiled source files;
• added an srcdir configurable variable;
• added a builddir configurable variable.

Version 0.2

• First public release.

© 2000, 2001, 2003, Marc Mongenet, last update and validation: 12-MAR-2003.