Build Tools

This page about How to build applications on Linux. ISO C and its standard library are described in C Tips. POSIX/Linux specific features and enhancements are described in Linux Programming.

indent

Use indent to constistently format your C-code. Here a configuration example for indent to be put in $HOME/.indent.pro:

/* Default Config: Use Kernighan & Ritchie coding style: */
--k-and-r-style
 
/* My minor variants to Kernighan & Ritchie Style: */
--line-length 80  /* Because default is 75 */
--no-tabs         /* Use spaces instead of tabs */
-brf              /* Place function opening brace after function declaration */

Usage:

find -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -0 indent

indent needs files with Unix line ends (\n) as input. Files with other line endings can be converted with fromdos or sbfromdos

GNU gcc / g++

See GNU GCC

GNU Gprof

See GNU Gprof

Make

See GNU Make

pkg-config

http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html

Automake

Manual

[Makefile.am] → (automake) ⇒ [Makefile.in]

Autoconf

Manual

                               [Makefile.in]
                                     ⇓
[configure.ac] → (autoconf) ⇒ [(configure)] ⇒ [Makefile] -> make ⇒ ...