Build Tools – Make, no more

Post by mpyne » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

greggman wrote: post #133

flohofwoe wrote: post #132

Another vote for higher-level meta-build-systems like cmake, premake or scons (I'm using cmake because it has very simple cross-compilation support). My personal road to build-system nirwana looked like this, I'm sure this is fairly common: - Started using hand-written Makefiles and autoconf. Then someone wants to build on Windows, in Visual Studio nonetheless. Add manually created VStudio project files to the projec…

I agree with this. As a cross platform (ie, Windows + OSX + Linux) person who enjoys Visual Studio (XCode less so) I need more than make. My own experience is with gyp and ninja which is used by the Chromium team ( http://martine.github.io/ninja/ ) which they use to build Windows, OSX, Linux, Android (and maybe iOS?) Of course for personal projects I'll probably never notice the speed difference but for bigger ones N…

Post by ArkyBeagle » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 11:31 PM UTC

dmytrish wrote: post #140

ArkyBeagle wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is eminently possible with make-plus-GCC - add the line: .depend : gcc -M *.c > .depend then at the bottom: source .depend

Thank you for that useful option. Just a nitpick: did you mean `include .depend`?