projectbuilder

A makefile designed to build generic c++ 11 projects.

Getting Started

To get started, simply clone this repo, and download the latest Boost library (this project was tested with the latest version of 1.66.0) from the Boost website.

⚠️NOTE: Boost was not included in this build because the archive is around 85mb compressed, and 683mb uncompressed.

Prerequisites

• Make
• C++ 11 capable compiler (this makefile uses a defined variable to define the compiles as g++)
• Linux environment (this makefile is built for a linux/mac environment)
• Boost source (this was latest tested with v1.66.0)

Usage

• Download the contents of this repo and extract to a directory
• Download the Boost source archive
  • Extract the Boost archive to {project root}\shared\
• Change makefile references to use the version you just extracted
  • edit {project root}\makefile
    • change the BOOST_VER variable (around line #9) to reflect your Boost source that was uncompressed
      • this variable is the last part of the Boost source folder (after the word "boost" and including characters such as "_")
      • there are NO spaces after the "=" sign
    • change the BOOST_LIBS_TO_BUILD variable
      • this specifies the boost libraries to build (based on folder names in boost/libs/)
• The above makefile calls {project root}\shared\build_boost_libs.mk and passes arguments about version and wanted libs
• Run make run from the command line, targetting {project root}\makefile, and the build process will be executed.
  • This project will first build dependencies as defined in the recipe labelled "dependencies"
    • Currently, this references Boost
  • Then each directory will be iterated over, and a make commad will be invoked in each
  • Then the output program specified by {project root}\PRIMARY_PROJECT_FOLDER\PRIMARY_PROGRAM will be invoked.
    • For this repo, it currently specifies "testJSON" as the target