Develop, Decorate and manage Dependencies for C (GNU) Makefiles easily with a Ruby script.

Install using the Ruby Gem:

gem install demake

To create an example with multiple sample applications:

demake example

This will create a directory named example containing the example.

To create an example with a single sample application:

demake oreo

This will create a directory named oreo containing the example.

It requires a demake directory and application file containing the application names followed by depencencies separated by spaces and with a new line to indicate a different application. Something like (from the example):

mkdir demake
echo "hello string" > demake/applications
echo "goodbye string" >> demake/applications
demake > Makefile

For customization, optionally include (see example): demake/settings.rb, demake/test-target.rb, demake/install-target.rb

The output of the command by itself is a (GNU style) Makefile:

demake > Makefile

You can also clone from git for a more complete example:

git clone https://github.com/MinaswanNakamoto/demake.git
chmod +x demake/bin/demake
cd demake
bin/demake example
cd example ; make ; make build ; make test

If you have an existing C application and you want to generate a Makefile for it, you might try the gen_application shell script.

./gen_application myapp