Knowledge Nuggets

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Makefile Autocompletion

Ballistica's main Makefile is set up to list info about its available targets when you simply type make or make help. However, it can also be handy to set up your shell to allow autocompleting target names. If you are using zsh (the default on Mac as of 10.15 Catalina), you can add this to your .zshrc file to enable it:

autoload -U compinit
compinit

Once you restart your shell, you should be able to type something like make prefab- and hit tab to see a list of all matching targets.

ericf@MacBook-Fro ballistica % make prefab-
prefab-debug                  prefab-mac-release
prefab-debug-build            prefab-mac-release-build
prefab-linux-debug            prefab-release
prefab-linux-debug-build      prefab-release-build
prefab-linux-release          prefab-windows-debug
prefab-linux-release-build    prefab-windows-debug-build
prefab-mac-debug              prefab-windows-release
prefab-mac-debug-build        prefab-windows-release-build

The same functionality should be possible with other shells such as bash, but I will leave that as an exercise for the user (feel free to expand this tip).

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