A good (i.e. easy but also 'cookbook' like) tutorial on using make (linux build tool)

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Published on 2010-05-17T08:40:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 10:10 UTC
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I am from a windows background (VC++), and moved to Linux (Ubuntu) about a year ago. I would like to be able to write simple make files to build the following types of binaries:

A shared library
An executable that links into third party libraries (static and shared libraries)
Create an install section in my makefile (which can then be used my checkinstall)

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A good (i.e. easy but also 'cookbook' like) tutorial on using make (linux build tool)

make

makefile

linux

c

c++

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