any good tool for makefile generation?

Question

I'm looking for a tool which can generate makefile for a C/C++ project for different compilers (gcc, microsoft vc++, borland etc) and different platforms (Win, Linux, Mac).

Solution 1

Other suggestions you may want to consider:

• Scons is a cross-platform, cross-compiler build library, uses Python scripting 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...

Solution 2

Try Automatic Makefile Generator.

It has support 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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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.

Solution 5

CMake is the only tool which can actually generate real Visual Studio projects (i.e., not "Makefile"-projects which call out to an external tool), and which automatically recreates the projects when the build input file (CMakeLists.txt) changes.

SCons performance issues are well-known and a thoroughly debated topic on the SCons mailing lists.

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[kirbyfan64sos]

Yet another dead SO link! I manually went to your GitHub page, and what I see there as CodeMate is a Fortran-only build something. Did you create another project with the same name? This looks like it might be what you meant.