GNU Make and Makefile for your Embedded C Project

Do you need to automate the build procedure of your project? Do you want to know what is going on behind the fancy user interface IDEs (like Eclipse ...) and how it build your project? Do you need to have better control over the compilation procedures of your embedded c sources?, then the Make and MakeFile is the answer for all those questions and concerns.

Make is a build tool allowing the automation of the build procedure of your project at larger scale, make used widely for embedded C projects (C sources) as well as C++ projects.

What are you going to get from this course?

This course will help you to:

• Make your first steps with makefile syntaxes, keywords and concepts.

• Learn how to deploy make tool as part of build System Architecture

• Understand the mapping between your projects sources and makefile rules/list of dependencies

• Create your first embedded system structure

• Write your first makefile for this project: rules, functions, variables ...

• Identify the dependencies to external environment in term of required packages and tools (cygwin, mingw, toolchain ...)

• Execute your makefile to build your project

• Identify issues within makefile used syntaxes, then fix them to get a working makefile build procedure

It is not only about make as build tool, it is about building full ecosystem on larger scale for your make based build system.