incnb/makefile

Yet another simple makefile-skeleton for simple c-projects

Makefile skeleton project

This is just a simple makefile-project skeleton which I using when no need to use GNU Autotools or other Makefile-generators.

Features:

• Simple including pkg-config defined libraries(LIBS property)
• Making .tar.gz distrib files for emailing and other repository-free sharing(make dist)
• Objects and dependencies files generating in hidden folder for more short ls output
• Version autocheck from git tag and offset(with version.sh script)
• Auto ChangeLog.txt generation from git history
• Simple debug building(with gdb flags)
• CMake-like build output
• Prepared .gitignore for C, Emacs and Vim from this github gitignore repo.

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_{This makefile can be used out-of-the-box only for c-projects and actually I don't think it is expedient to make any changes in it, write new Makefile for non-c project will be easier.}

How to use it?

$ git clone https://github.com/inickey/makefile helloworld
$ cd helloworld
$ make init

How to version?

Versions in it is [MAJOR].[MINOR].[COMMIT]. Major and minor versions is set manually with git tag command in tag-name format v[MAJOR].[MINOR]

$ git tag v1.2

This command will set major to 1 and minor to 2. Third part of version, commit number will increments automatically, with every commit. History in ChangeLog.txt will be cleaned with every new tag.

How to code?

You just should paste any *.c and *.h files in root directory, make will search every source file, compile it and then link all files together to $(TARGET) property of makefile. If you use any libraries(for example glib-2.0 and sqlite3) you should paste it to LIBS property of makefile, separated with spaces.

LIBS = glib-2.0 sqlite3

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_{Actually I use it only for beginning some new projects that I don't know will complete or support(but there's some exceptions of this rule). Usually later I changing it Makefile for GNU Autotools.}