How to make a Makefile

John Romein, SAM
Vrije Universiteit
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
john@cs.vu.nl, sam@cs.vu.nl

Version 1.0se

Abstract:

• Introduction
• What you need to know about the compiler
  • The stages from sourcefiles to an executable
    • Making objectfiles from source: .c .o
    • Making an executable from objectfiles and libraries: .o, .a a.out
  • Compiler options
• A simple Makefile
  • Doing it all by hand
  • Finding the dependencies
  • Let make do the work
  • Using macro's
  • Using patterns
  • Removing targets
  • Using libraries
  • C++
  • Compilation failures
• Generating dependencies
• Useful to know ...
  • Commonly used make-options
  • Other documentation
• About this document ...