Boilerplate Makefile

A simple Makefile for medium to large projects that supports resolution of 3rd party dependencies.

Requirements

Linux

Installation commands are relative to your distributions package repository. Ubuntu for example would require sudo apt install pkgconf.

• GNU Make
• GCC or Clang
• pkg-config or pkgconf (optional)
  • This would be required if you were using 3rd party libraries in your code such as the ncurses development libraries.

Windows

• MinGW-W64 Environment through MSYS2
• MinGW-W64 Toolchain
  • pacman -S mingw-w64-[platform]-toolchain

You will need to replace the usage of make with mingw32-make. The work around is to alias mingw32-make as make in your .bashrc (or similar) file.

Usage

To use this template, run make (mingw32-make on Windows) in the same directory as the Makefile. This will compile, link and resolve the project dependencies (if there are any) and output your named executable in the bin directory.

Simple Directory Structure

Right out of the box this Makefile supports a src, bin layout structure but it can be easily modified if you prefer to keep your header files separate or use a different structure.

bin
└ my-project-executable
src
├ main.c
├ my_lib.h
└ my_lib.c