A simple makefile generator that can generate makefiles for:
- GNU-make targeting MinGW, clang-cl or MSVC.
- Microsoft's Nmake targeting MSVC only.
- OpenWatcom targeting only OpenWatcom programs for Windows.
It supports these generators (option -G) and makefile syntaxes:
| Generator | Syntax |
|---|---|
windows |
GNU-make, targeting MinGW, MSVC and clang-cl. |
Use e.g. make -f Makefile.Windows CC=gcc. |
|
cygwin |
GNU-make |
mingw |
GNU-make, assumes a dual-target MinGW supporting -m32. |
msvc |
Nmake for Microsoft's make program. |
watcom |
Wmake for OpenWatcom's make program. |
It works by finding all source-files (.c, *.cc, *.cxx and *.cpp) in
current directory and all sub-directories (except .git)
and writes the Makefile based on this information. The Makefile is just a
starting point for further hand-editing. Hints are inserted into Makefiles
as #! xx.
For a GNU-make generator, it also adds:
- a rule to create a
foo.rcfile. - a rule to create dependencies from
SOURCES.
For the MinGW or Cygwin targets (in generators window, mingw and cygwin),
you can select x64 target by e.g. a:
c:\MyProject> set CPU=x64 & gen-make -G mingw
This will add a -m64 to the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. It preferably should do this
at the time invoking Makefile.MinGW
(not at the time of generating it). You'll have to hand-edit the makefile to fix this.
A generated makefile in this git checkout directory is able to compile and link a program foo.exe.
When running foo.exe, it should print:
It seems a "gen-make.exe" generated Makefile was able to compile and build this 'foo.exe' program.
Congratulations! But I will not let you do any damage here.
A future version could use the Python package Mako to generate the templates. Maybe at run-time?