This seems to happen a lot for me. I’m testing/playing around with some code thing, and I set up some cheeseball compiling in a shell script. Then I get to a point and it’s just not enough, the compiling is taking too long, or so one. My major projects often have a nice makefile setup going, but my experiments, not so much. That’s because writing a makefile, despite being the same thing again and again for me, is tricky to get right.
So here’s a generic makefile I’d typically use. I’m posting it here so I can steal it as needed, but feel free to use it and hack away at it; That’s what makefiles are for. 🙂
This makefile is designed for simple GCC/G++ usage. It’s designed to put temporary/object files in an “obj/” folder, and the final binary in the “output/” folder. Also the generated file can be executed from the make command (via ‘make run’). If you have a specific set of command line arguments you want to pass to the program, specify them in the ARGS variable.
Lines that are too long should end with a “” character, which continues on to the next line. Make sure there are no spaces after the “”!!!
I’ve also included an optional common tweak I often do. Un-comment the SRC_PREFIX line to assume all code files and paths specified are in a “src/” folder.