basicmakefile

A very basic Makefile for C project:

• debug and release mode
• dependency detection
• strict ANSI-C

Usage

• copy the Makefile in the source directory
• if using Visual Studio Code, you can also copy .vscode folder
  • add a task to build the program
  • add a task to clean the directory
  • add a debug launch
  • make sure that gcc and gdb is in your PATH environment variable
  • have a look at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp
• configure the Makefile if needed
• build the program

Configure the Makefile

DEBUG can be set to yes to enable debug symbol generation, allowing the usage of a debugger.

EXEC contains the name of the executable file (program.exe by default).

SRC contains the list of source files (*.c by default).

CFLAGS and LDFLAGS respectively contains c compilation flags and link flags.

Build the program

cd directory_containing_makefile
make

Clean the directory

cd directory_containing_makefile
make clean