A Generic Makefile Template for C/C++ Projects
- Automatically traverses and lists all (code files in) sub-directories, or you manually add;
- Automatically generates and processes dependencies;
- Can hanlde cross-compiling or cross-platform projects (e.g. Linux, MacOS, Windows);
- Can work with C projects, C++ projects, or mixed;
- With examples in-file, and flags for high performance with small size of binary;
- Not only for executable binaries, but also for static & dynamic libraries [to-do].
- Copy the
Makefilefile to your program source code directory. - Customize in the "Customizable Section" only if necessary:
- to use non-standard C/C++ libraries, set pre-processor or compiler
options to
<EXTRA_CFLAGS>and linker ones to<EXTRA_LIBS> - to search sources in more directories, set to
<SRCDIRS> - to specify your favorite program name, set to
<PROGRAM>
- to use non-standard C/C++ libraries, set pre-processor or compiler
options to
- Type
maketo start building your program.
The Makefile provides the following targets to make:
make # compile and link
make NODEP=yes # compile and link without generating dependencies
make objs # compile only (no linking)
make tags # create tags for Emacs editor
make ctags # create ctags for VI editor
make clean # clean objects and the executable file
make distclean # clean objects, the executable and dependencies
make help # get the usage of the makefile- [Pear] (https://pear.hk)
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