Hardware and software combined, Arduino does many things right. It lowers the entry level into embedded systems development with a nifty hardware abstraction layer. It aims for cross-platform ...

The make tool turns the big 4-0 next month, and we thought we’d start up the festivities early. In a two-part series, I’ll cover some of the make background that I think is particularly useful, and ...

In a compiled language, the makefile is arguably the most important part of any programming project. To compile your project, you first have to compile each source file into an object file, which in ...

GNU makefiles let your small business put out source code that can adapt its compilation to a specific client's machine, and preemptively detect problems or unmet software dependencies. Checking to ...

At my work, we've got a pretty gigantic development system of C source code, all of which is built with a multi-level set of makefiles. Individual targets are built by individual makefiles, which are ...