Questions tagged [make]
The tool called "make" is a build manager which compares the last modification times of various files and performs user specified actions (commands) when the "target" files are found to be older than their dependencies.
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Makefile template
I have created a Makefile template file which I hope to be able to easily drop in to a folder and have useful targets ready. I am, however, not very familiar with ...
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Makefile: Include a generated-on-demand file
For the record, I'm writing according to the NEXT - Version 5 of Single Unix Specification, which is Issue 8 if you count the days when it was named XPG. In this new standard, a few new already-common-...
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CSV to TSV converter in C+yacc+lex and a Makefile
This is Comma-Separated Values to Tab-Separated Values converter written in C, with yacc(1) and lex(1).
I'm remembering how to use yacc (the first (and last) time I used it was while reading «The UNIX ...
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Makefile that compiles to two separate executables
I'm working on a project that will have both a server and a client, using Boost's ASIO library for networking.
I'm not really comfortable working with Makefiles, but, with some help from Chase Lambert'...
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Optimization of General Purpose Makefile
I wrote a makefile that would generate a simple executable from the example directory structure.
project/
source/
include/
makefile
The makefile itself comes ...
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std::vector<bool> workaround in C++
I've been trying to make an std::vector of boolean values and I got fed up with the specialization. To get around this, I made a wrapper class around ...
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Generic makefile for C++ projects
Looking at back at the C++ projects I've developed, the Makefiles are a mess. To tell you the truth, I copied one a long time ago and basically have been cutting and pasting it haphazardly ever since....
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Compiling dependency files: Linker Warning [closed]
I adapted a makefile to re-compile for changed header files by generating a list of dependencies.
The code framework already existed and all I had to do was adding a little bit of code for the ...
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Makefile for a document generation system
This is my first shot at writing a makefile for a document generation system. Please identify any more ways to refine it. Some pointers on how it works:
The INPUT files initially are templates to be ...
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Understand the dependency levels of makefiles
Assume that the project has the following files, where the first files is dependent on the files under it's category in the unordered list:
main.c
global.h (contains enumerations and #define ...
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Building a lot of individual programs from one Makefile
I have written a non-recursive Makefile that almost does the job I want. Apart from not full-fillng all my goals it doesn't look good. There should ways to solve the issues and also to improve/clean ...
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Make stylesheets, with automatic dependency tracking
This is a revision of the code posted here.
It's a Makefile that I want to use for compiling Sass files to CSS in web projects. For this, I typically have two folders ...
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Standalone GNU Makefile tracking `@import` statements in Sass
The following is a (working) excerpt from the Makefile I want to use in web projects. I wanted this Makefile to contain all the necessary code and not rely on other self-written files. Partly, because ...
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GNU Make variable relationship graph using Python
This program runs through a preprocessed makefile (make --print-data-base | python make_graph.py [options]) to assemble a directed graph of its variables.
I ...
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Rules and targets in a makefile for data science in R
I am analysing some data (from bioinformatics) with R scripts. I created my first makefile to be able to redo them easily. There is a Figures folder in the root folder and for each analysis a folder ...
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Pandoc builder system
I have created a GNUMake building system for pandoc. It has grown quite a bit, I wonder if I can optimize it further. Would it be possible, for instance, that it only runs a target if the output hasn'...
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Using GNU make for a build system without hand-written rules
For my own projects, I regularly use GNU make and often had the same requirements like
It should work in windows cmd as well as in a *nix shell
It should work for ...
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GNU Makefile for google benchmark
I've decided to write a common Makefile for Google benchmark library. You could say I could have taken generated Makefile, but it's not appropriate solution (or maybe I'm wrong?).
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Makefile and object file directory
Ok this is the first makefile I've ever written. I it works and that's about it. Things that I was wondering if if I can specify where the object files go. It looks really bad with all the .o files ...
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Automake for an S/KEY implementation
I've been tasked with giving a legacy codebase some love. The actual code is written in C, but is not very relevant aside from the #includes each file makes. No, ...
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Makefile and main header file for a shell
My main.c includes this header file. Please let me know how I can improve it. I did my best but I don't know much about code conventions in C (I come from Java and ...
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Non-recursive make script
I am trying to make an easy-to-use non-recursive make script that works with several directories.
Everything is packed here.:
Directory structure
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Makefile to build and debug a C++ console app
I had to create this makefile to build and debug a C++ console app. I just need some hints and tips on how I can organize my makefile.
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Makefile for a x86 operating system in C++
I recently had submitted my bashscript for building an OS for review and got valuable feedback, so I rewrote the entire script for a makefile:
Makefile
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Makefile for a custom operating system kernel
I'm now posting the second semi-complete part of my operating system makefile. The kernel itself is currently incomplete, so don't be surprised by the small size of the makefile. When the kernel ...
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A basic, modern, idiomatic GNU makefile
I have prepared a small makefile for a small project, but I am trying to find what would be the best practices; up to now I have gathered these:
relatively idiomatic (typical structures, flows, var ...
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Built-in help in a Makefile
My colleagues often ask me, "Dude could you remind me what I have to type to build this target?". So I eventually implemented a nice workaround in my Makefiles.
I wanted my Makefiles to have a help ...
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Slicing and dicing images for Google Play
Making an Android app involves making a lot of images of various sizes:
The app's launcher icon, in high/low/medium resolution
Buttons, menu buttons, if any, in high/low/medium resolution
Images for ...
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Makefile and directory structure
I am looking for improvements for this basic makefile and directory structure. I know this is overkill and could be compiled with one line in a flat directory structure, but I want to use this as a ...
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Makefile for automatically processing image files
I have a Makefile that is used to automatically process some image files. The basic idea behind this is
copy everything from col-noborder and ...
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Optimize a Makefile
Since my project is getting bigger every day and I am just a starter in the wonderful world of makefiles, I need some help improving mine because, although it works (almost) as I wish, it really ...
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Coverage processing on multiple Java projects with gmake
As part of my data collection, I have to run multiple kinds of coverage processing on multiple Java projects. Below is my main Makefile intented only for gmake. ...
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Cleaning multiple build directories
I'm cleaning build directories produced by GNOME build tool, JHBuild. This tool either downloads tarballs or clones git repositories, depending on set-up. After that, it proceeds to compilation (and ...
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