[GNU Make] Summary of Reference Information for Learning How to Write Makefiles

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Tue, March 12, 2019

I’ll introduce a summary of reference information I used for learning how to write Makefiles with GNU Make.

GNU Make Official Site

When you want to know accurate information, read the official site (in English). At the time of writing, it was GNU make version 4.2.

If you’re not good with English, I recommend reading it alongside the Japanese translation of the official site. This was GNU make version 3.77 at the time of writing.

GNU Make Tutorial Articles

GNU Make Tutorial Course

Practical Ways to Write Makefiles

This covers most of what you need to know for creating Makefiles in practice.

GNU Make Books

O'Reilly Book "GNU Make 3rd Edition"

If you want to learn more about GNU Make, read the O’Reilly book “GNU Make 3rd Edition”. On the official site below, the Contents section has links to each chapter that can be read as PDFs.

That’s all from the Gemba on learning GNU Make and understanding how to write Makefiles.

Reference Information