wichtounet / make-utils

Simple utility to easily write makefile for C++ projects

make-utils

This repository provides simple utilities to build c++ projects using makefiles in a simpler way.

Your header files need to be in include folder and source files are expected to be separated in another folders. You can have several source folders and you can create different executables.

Ideally, you should put the make-utils directory directly in your project root tree, but this is not necessary.

Basic Example

Here is a base example of using it for a simple program:

default: release

.PHONY: default release debug all clean

include make-utils/flags.mk
include make-utils/cpp-utils.mk

# Change the use flags
CXX_FLAGS += -Werror -pedantic

# Compile the folder source
$(eval $(call auto_folder_compile,src))

# Create an executable with all the sources from auto_folder_compile calls
$(eval $(call auto_add_executable,example))

# Create a second executable from a single file
$(eval $(call folder_compile,sub))
$(eval $(call add_executable,sub,sub/simple.cpp))

release: release/bin/example
release_debug: release_debug/bin/example
debug: debug/bin/example

all: release release_debug debug

clean: base_clean

include make-utils/cpp-utils-finalize.mk

You can choose in which mode you want to compile your project (debug, release, release_debug), each being compiled in a different folder. Therefore, you compile all three of them and test them.

More Examples

This project is used in other projects, here are the makefiles:

• cpm project (simple): https://github.com/wichtounet/cpm/blob/master/Makefile
• eddic project (complex): https://github.com/wichtounet/eddic/blob/develop/Makefile
• etl project (complex): https://github.com/wichtounet/etl/blob/master/Makefile
• dll project (complex): https://github.com/wichtounet/dll/blob/master/Makefile