Makefile

Naming

By convention its named Makefile but lowercase makefile should work fine as well.

About

Makefile just runs commands commands in your terminal.

HelloWorld make file

/dir/makefile:

default:
	echo hi

in /dir/ run

make

to execute the file.

Basic of Makefile

Just runs whatever command you tell it to run.

Notes

Does not accept spaces at the front of the command, needs to be a tab.

Example Commit

gt.sandbox.checkout.commit.cleanly dc41a95 \
&& cd cpp/hello-world \
&& make \
&& ./out_runnable

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Backlinks

• CMake