Make And Makefiles

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August 18, 2010

Make And Makefiles

By Bryan Young

When I first learned to program, like many people, I learned in a graphical IDE that did basically everything for me. This is great for beginners who need to focus on learning programming, and not worry with compiling and linking their code manually. In my case, I was learning C so there was a lot going on in the background when I clicked on 'compile' that I was not aware of, until I began coding on a remote Unix machine.

For those who don't know, when creating a C program with more than one file, you have to first compile the code into machine language, then link that code together so that they can be used together.

I spent many nights working on programs, having to continuously type the same three lines of gcc over and over after making small changes, that I hoped would fix whatever bug I was having. It got to the point that I was typing more to compile my code than changing my code, so I decided to find a better way. That was when I foundmake.

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