Sample Automake Flow

Basic Flow

0. Prepare automake (i.e. brew install automake)
1. Move sorces to /src directory
2. Add Makefile.am
3. autoscan
4. mv configure.scan configure.ac
5. Add AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE line to configure.ac
6. autoheader
7. aclocal
8. Make required files (i.e. touch NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog)
9. automake --add-missing
10. autoconf
11. ./configure
12. make
13. src/hello

Sample Makefile.am

Makefile.am

SUBDIRS = src

src/Makefile.am

bin_PROGRAMS = hello
hello_SOURCES = hello.cc hello.h main.cc

REFERENCES

• http://www.02.246.ne.jp/~torutk/cxx/automake/automake.html
• http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~kiyoshiy/memo/autoconf.html
• https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_25.html
• https://developer.gnome.org/anjuta-build-tutorial/stable/create-autotools.html.en