MakeMe

Building Made Simple

MakeMe is a modern replacement for the venerable make and not so popular autoconf utilities.

MakeMe builds directly or generates native Makefiles and IDE projects from a single, unified project description. MakeMe provides a higher level of abstraction for defining software builds. MakeMe is open source, so use it now in your projects.

Read why MakeMe can accelerate your development.

MakeMe Overview Specs

Documentation

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Tech Bits

MakeMe Features

Configuration and component discovery — replaces autoconf
Compiler capability sleuthing
Single, master configuration source header — me.h
Generation of Xcode, Visual Studio, Make, Nmake and shell script projects
Automatic C/C++ source code dependencies
Cross platform. Easily handles Windows, Linux and Mac builds
Cross-compilation support
Building outside source tree for read-only file systems
MakeMe files are Javascript source and are easily modified and extended
Multiple build profiles (debug, release, ...)
Very fast configuration and building times, even on windows
MakeMe is Open Source and can be used freely under the GPL license.

Nice Bits

Unified project view, no "make" style recursion required
MakeMe configuration may be comprised of multiple MakeMe files
MakeMe file targets and scripts are relative to their own directory
Targets can be named symbolically not just by the target path.
MakeMe provides a "why" option to display why a target was or was not rebuilt (me --why)
MakeMe files and targets intelligently inherit of outer project properties

Support

Self-Help

You can access the documentation and Samples or just read the Code to help yourself.

Community

You may log bugs and open issues on the MakeMe Issue Database.

Developers

Want to help the MakeMe community as a contributing developer?

Read about how to create patches and join the fun.

Developers Only

Contact Us

Embedthis Software LLC.
Seattle Washington
info@embedthis.com
+1 (408) 905-7017