any good tool for makefile generation? [closed]

Answer 1

Have you tried Automatic Makefile Generator?

It supports for the following compilers:

Borland 3.1 
Borland 5.0 
Borland 5.0, 16 bit 
Borland 5.5 
Borland 5.6 
Borland 5.8 
CC 
Gnu g++ 
Gnu g++, dynamic library 
Intel 5, 6, 7 for Linux 
Intel 5, 6, 7 for Linux, dynamic library 
Intel 5, 6, 7 for windows 
Intel 8,9,10 for Linux 
Intel 8,9,10 for Linux, dynamic library 
Intel 8,9 for windows 
Intel 10 for windows 
Visual C++ 5 
Visual C++ 6, 7, 7.1 
Visual C++ 8 
Open Watcom 
Watcom 10A 
Watcom 10A, 16 bit 

Answer 2

I've used Bakefile before with some success. It's fairly simple and seems to work well.

Answer 3

I would vote for OMake. It fixes all complains I had with GNU make:

• it's a full-blown language.
• uses MD5 instead of timestamps.
• provides a minimal shell which implements the most useful unix commands on all platforms: find, sed, awk, etc...
• works with either unix or dos style pathnames.
• extensively documented.
• supports parallel builds.
• fast.

Answer 4

One issue to consider is do you want a "makefile" creator or a replacement build system? The problem with replacement build systems is that you typically don't get good IDE integration for platforms whose users expect this (Visual C++). If you do want a makefile creator instead of a replacement build system, take a look at MPC. It's free and open source.

Answer 5

A recent addition to the list of make replacements is waf. From personal experience SCONS does the job pretty well.

Answer 6

Other suggestions you may want to consider:

• Scons is a cross-platform, cross-compiler build library, uses Python scruipting for the build systems. Used in a variety of large projects, and performs very well.

• If you're using Qt, QMake is a nice build system too.

• CMake is also pretty sweet.

• Finally, If all else fails...