Awesome Make 🛠

• Official Reference

Docs/Tutorials

• Makefile Tutorial
• New make --shuffle mode

Improving Make

• Self-Documented Makefile
• Make2Tap - Leverage Tap to transform the make outputs into nice readable ones

Lint and Highlight

• CheckMake
• Tree Sitter Support

Alternatives

• dotnet-run-script (.NET - F#/C#)
• Erlang.mk (Erlang)
• Fake (F#)
• FsMake (F#)
• Just (Rust) HN
• Mage (Go)
• Meson (Python)
• Ninja
• shmux
• shikaan/shmux HN
• Task (Go)
• Alternatives list on Github
• bld (Java)
• Maven (Java)
• Gradle (Java)

Tools

Plugins

• ptethng/telescope-makefile - Simple telescope extension to run GNU Make targets in Neovim

Bugs

• Can GNU make handle filenames with spaces?

Others

• Seamlessly Run Composer On HHVM Inside Docker: Introducing make-docker-command
• The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile
• Automation and Make
• Recursive Make - can be used to simplify the build on large projects
• Makefiles, best practices
• Your Makefiles are wrong
• Using Makefile(s) for Go
• Polyglot Makefiles
  • HN
• The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
  • HN
• Makefiles for Web Work
  • HN
• Makefile to compile a Maven/Gradle-style project layout using a custom JDK
• Make Developing Easier by Building a Beautiful Makefile
• The AWK book’s 60-line version of Make
• Managing dotfiles with Make

Videos

• CMake Basic Setup