Generic Makefiles

Drop a Generic Makefiles in your source directory, type make all, and it will automatically:

find all .c files;
calculate all dependencies;
compile .c files into .o files;
link .o files to produce an a.out executable.

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>

Besides all, the following goals are provided:

Generic Makefiles targets
goal	use
`usage`	print available goals
`list`	list the source files
`all`	build the executable
`debug`	build the executable with debug options
`prof`	build the executable with profiling options
`clean`	remove all files created by build

The makefile is customizable by editing the following variables:

User variables in Generic Makefiles
variable	default value
variable	C	C++
`EXE`	`a.out`
`SOURCE_SUFFIX`	`c`	`cc`
`CC`	`gcc`	`g++`
`srcdir`	`.`
`builddir`	`.`
`INC_PATH`	`-I$(srcdir)`
`LNK_LIBS`
`COMPILE_OPTS`
`BWARN_OPTS`	`-Wall -ansi`
`EWARN_OPTS`	`$(BWARN_OPTS) -pedantic -Wtraditional -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Winline`	`$(BWARN_OPTS) -pedantic -Wtraditional -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Woverloaded-virtual -Winline`

License

This software is released under the GNU General Public License.

Download

Version	Release date	File
0.3.1	2003-03-12	`GenericMakefiles-0.3.1.tar.gz`
0.3	2000-11-06	`GenericMakefiles-0.3.tar.gz`
0.2	2000-10-10	`GenericMakefiles-0.2.tar.gz`

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.