Autotools skeleton

A simple autotools skeleton for quickly setting up new projects

Requirements

• Automake
• Autoconf
• Libtool

Simple steps to create a new autotools project

1. Clone the repository

2. Give it a quick try:

    ~# bash autogen.sh
    ~# cd build/
    ~# ../configure
    ~# make
    ~# ./src/my_program
    ~# make check
    ~# make install
    ~# my_program
    ~# make uninstall
   

3. Remove .git/ folder

4. Change parameters in configure.ac, specially AC_INIT() ones

5. Import your code, setup your favourite revision control system and start customizing the configure.ac and Makefile.am(s) for your project structure...

have fun!

FAQ

• I get an error after modifying the structure of my project, what shall I do?

  Try re-running autogen.sh first. If this doesn't help you most likely have a misconfiguration.

• Once I do make install, my_program is not in the path or I cannot link against libmy_lib.so/a.

  This skeleton installs by default binaries in /usr/local/bin, and libraries in /usr/local/lib. Make sure they are on the path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

TODO

• Add --enable-feature-x and --with-feature-y switch cases in configure.ac
• Add library checks at configure time
• Add custom config.h.in

Author

Marc Sune Clos <marcdevel (at) gmail (dot) com>