In this installment, I’ll cover creating different subdirectories for different parts of the code. We’ll move NDesk.Options.cs into an ndesk directory and Greeting.cs into a src directory. Some modifications need to be made to various pieces of the distribution in order for this to work out correctly. We’ll do the minimum required now and cover…

Introduction One of autotools’ primary purposes is to allow software to be built and installed on a wide range of platforms. The configure script is responsible for a great deal of this flexibility. When it is run, it interrogates the system on which it is being run to determine the features available. If required features…

Introduction This entry will show how to add the bits required for an install target. There are two pieces that need to be added to the Makefile.am: target_DATA, which is a list of files associated with the target targetdir, which is the location where the above files will be installed Return to the workplace $…

This one has to be quick folks. The family needs my support this evening ;) In the last episode, we created a simple configure.ac and defined a variable, CSC. We didn’t change the Makefile other than re-naming it to Makefile.am. In this article, we’ll simply show how to consume the variable which was defined in…

In this section, we’ll create a minimalist configure.ac, re-name our Makefile to Makefile.am, generate a configure script, and use this configure script to produce a Makefile. The end result won’t do much more than our manually-created Makefile. It will, however, allow us to make use of the autoconf and automake infrastructure in future lessons. So…