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This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

GNU Make

GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

Reference(s)

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Install

# emerge -a sys-devel/make

# pacman -S make

# nix-env -iA nixos.gnumake

# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gnumake

# apt install make

# yum install make

# dnf install make

Config

TODO

Use

WIP

$ make clean && make CFLAGS="-fPIC" CXXFLAGS="-fpermissive -fPIC".
  • c++98 or c++03 for "ISO C++ 1998 with amendments" standard
  • gnu++98 or gnu++03 for "ISO C++ 1998 with amendments and GNU extensions" standard
  • c++11 for "ISO C++ 2011 with amendments" standard
  • gnu++11 for "ISO C++ 2011 with amendments and GNU extensions" standard
  • c++14 for "ISO C++ 2014 with amendments" standard
  • gnu++14 for "ISO C++ 2014 with amendments and GNU extensions" standard
  • c++17 for "ISO C++ 2017 with amendments" standard
  • gnu++17 for "ISO C++ 2017 with amendments and GNU extensions" standard
  • c++20 for "ISO C++ 2020 DIS" standard
  • gnu++20 for "ISO C++ 2020 DIS with GNU extensions" standard
  • c89, c90, or iso9899:1990 for "ISO C 1990" standard
  • iso9899:199409 for "ISO C 1990 with amendment 1" standard
  • gnu89 or gnu90 for "ISO C 1990 with GNU extensions" standard
  • c99 or iso9899:1999 for "ISO C 1999" standard
  • gnu99 for "ISO C 1999 with GNU extensions" standard
  • c11 or iso9899:2011 for "ISO C 2011" standard
  • gnu11 for "ISO C 2011 with GNU extensions" standard
  • c17, iso9899:2017, c18, or iso9899:2018 for "ISO C 2017" standard
  • gnu17 or gnu18 for "ISO C 2017 with GNU extensions" standard

E.g. 

$ make clean && make CFLAGS="-std=gnu90 -fPIC" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++14 -fpermissive -fPIC"

TODO

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