The venerable UNG Make: An ancient build tool that works great and is still better than most alternatives
Our team uses GNU Make to build any of our software projects once they have reached a reasonable level of complexity. We use it to build …
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What is GNU Make?
GNU Make is an open source and free build automation tool.
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GNU Make is an open source and free build automation tool.
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January 10, 2020
The venerable UNG Make: An ancient build tool that works great and is still better than most alternatives
Our team uses GNU Make to build any of our software projects once they have reached a reasonable level of complexity. We use it to build Go, C, and Fortran-based projects to provide simple "make build" or "make test" steps to compile code and run tests. It's an old-fashioned tool, and I wish there were better tools available, but none of the contenders seem to have the simplicity and extensibility that Make does. Other devices seem to be language-specific and specialized for specific ecosystems (e.g., maven or Gradle are great for Java, but not for C projects). Batch files are simpler but don't perform as well and don't provide as much out-of-the-box flexibility (e.g., ability to compile only specific files rather than a full build).
- Dependency tracking (only re-build files if needed)
- Simple to integrate with existing command-line tools
- No dependency management tools (but there are no cross-platform tools of this type anyway)
- Tedious to do cross-compilation (Debug & Release builds, 32- and 64-bit builds, x86/ARM builds)
December 23, 2019
GNU Make evaluation
GNU Make is being used as a build script in our product software development, specifically for embedded software development.
- Performance and accuracy of cross-module dependencies.
- Simple to write and easy to understand.
- Constrained by the tab to start for command.
- Cannot append something on the end of a variable.