Hi all,
I'm a relative newbie to C and to make/jam in general, but
I am unhappy
using an IDE to work in, which is why I would love to get to
grips with
make, jam, kjam, or one of the other variants.
Unfortunately, as I have found out, it can be cumbersome to
maintain
the make/jamfile, and Make does little to alleviate the
situation.
That's when I found Jam, and the page at:
http://www.perfo
rce.com/jam/jam.html
It's very good, and a definite improvement over make, but
unfortunately,
I still have to type in all the names of the source files!
I want to be able to just specify the name of the file with
the main
function, along with the compiler arguments, and that's it.
Jam (and
all the other make clones) should be able to automatically
scan the
source code to see what other .c or .h files depend on it.
This
should be trivial. I shouldn't have to worry about adding
these names
in manually. Computers are very good at automation, humans
are not.
Sorry if this seems like a rant. You'd think there'd be
something
out there that could do what I want. Perhaps there is? Or
maybe
even Jam could do it? If any of you could point me to a make
clone
which does this, I'd be very grateful.
Just to make it totally clear, I'll explain a hypothetical
situation.
I have three source files.
#include "main.c"
#include "data.h"
#include "data.c"
The main.c file has an include for "data.h", so
it should know that it has
to link to data.c. A human should NOT have to type in data.c
into the
jamfile.
Instead Jam should look through the source to check these
things out. In
summary, this would allow me to have one Jamfile for all
projects
(excluding
compiler arguments, which I think I could move to the source
code anyway -
maybe someone here knows how? ).
Hope someone can help.
Cheers,
Daniel
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www.skytopia.com
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