Re:I Like Makefiles
by kaba0 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:26AM
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There are projects that generate files, depend on multiple languages, etc. If you push the job of a build tool to the compiler infrastructure, then why even have a “build tool” in the first place? Make is simply anemic for anything remotely complex, and there are countless better tools that actually solve the problem.
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Re:I Like Makefiles
by imtringued on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:11AM
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Yeah my biggest problem with make is that the compiler has to generate the header file dependencies. This means starting a C or C++ project with make from scratch is a hard problem and there is no default solution or default file for this other than to just use CMake.