MakeWiz

MakeWiz is a handy command-line tool designed to make working with Makefiles easier. With just one simple command, genmake does the work of creating a neat Makefile that perfectly fits the files in your directory. Right now, it is available for Debian-based Linux distros, but other systems should be supported in the future too. Binary downloads will be available for every release.

🔐 MakeWiz is licensed under MIT license.

Quick links

• Demonstration
• Installation
• User Guide
• Your feedback

Demonstration of genmake in action

Let's say that you have a directory with such files

• Bike.cpp Bike.hpp
• Car.cpp Car.hpp
• Vehicle.hpp
• main.cpp and executable main

After running genmake, a Makefile like this will be created

```Makefile OBJS = Bike.o Car.o main.o SOURCE = Bike.cpp Car.cpp main.cpp HEADER = Bike.hpp Car.hpp Vehicle.hpp OUT = main CC = g++ FLAGS = -g -c -Wall LFLAGS =

all: $(OBJS) $(CC) -g $(OBJS) -o $(OUT) $(LFLAGS)

Bike.o: Bike.cpp $(CC) $(FLAGS) Bike.cpp

Car.o: Car.cpp $(CC) $(FLAGS) Car.cpp

main.o: main.cpp $(CC) $(FLAGS) main.cpp

clean: rm -f $(OBJS) $(OUT) ```

All files with extensions other than .cpp, .hpp, .c, .h will be automatically ignored by genmake

Installation

If you are a Debian user(or any other Debian-based distros like Ubuntu), you can install genmake using a .deb file.

$ sudo curl -LO https://github.com/kallazz/genmake/releases/download/v0.5.0/genmake_0.5.0_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i genmake_0.5.0_amd64.deb

If you wish to install a version other than the latest, all .deb binaries will be available in genmake releases.

Right now other systems are not supported, but they will be in the future.

User Guide

Currently, there are 3 ways to use genmake. Each of them will generate a Makefile. The only difference will be the names of the executable file and the compiler.

• No arguments: genmake

  Makefile will be created with the default compiler and executable names. Default names are main for the executable and g++ for the compiler.

  OUT = main CC = g++

• One argument: genmake your_executable

  Makefile will be created with the default compiler, but your own executable name.

  OUT = your_executable CC = g++

• Two arguments: genmake your_executable your_compiler

  Makefile will be created with your own executable and compiler names.

  OUT = your_executable CC = your_compiler

This is not a very convenient approach, if you don't want to use the default values. It will be modified with flags and environmental variables in the future.

Your feedback

If you have any questions, suggestions, or run into any issues, feel free to head over to the Issues tab. Your feedback is very important to me.