Makefiles Make Your Life Easier

In this video, we learn why Makefiles are great and how to use them properly.

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Neuralnine casually creating a c files in a python director

[omaralraisi]

It's also worth mentioning that the power of make comes from that it tracks file changes, where if you run make all and then modify only one source file, when you run make all the second time, only that single file gets recompiled and not all files, and if nothing changed it wouldn't recompile again

[potatocoder]

Thank you for creating this tutorial! Because you explained what the manual way looks like and its pitfalls, it helped me appreciate Makefiles. You are a great teacher!

[FroyoAnto]

this whole time I was writing my own batch file for this, never knew this existed 💀

[eumm]

thank you so much man, excellent explanation!

[rishichowdary]

got the clear understanding, GOTCHA

thanks by the way

Well done, CHAP

[emilie]

thank you! I have 3 books on C but no one has told me how to make a Makefile

[idrisalhajiadamu]

I learn something and have hit the like button, thank you very much.😎

[raunakwete]

We can also write a build shell script to compile small projects.

[mdperpe]

Doesn't it disturb you having a prompt that takes up more that 2/3 of the screen width? I have shortened my prompt and added line breaks into it so that the information (like host and directory) is on one line and the actual prompt is alone on another line.

[vonderklaas]

Thanks man, very helpful! Subscribed!

[Universe]

Thank you. I used to do huge commands in the terminal but it's high time I use make.

[LazizbekYusupov]

Awesome work! It made clear it all in one video!

[jeffreyhunter]

Very well explained. Thanks for sharing.

[ruslanart]

I finally managed to link libraries because of this tutorial. I can now commit to learning c.

[claudestephaneadriendjanti]

i dont realy understand how you manage to displaye the content of the function(hello world) minewhile this function is not part of the defferen functioncreated using flags and from what i see they are not diretly connected

[lawrencedoliveiro]

10:38 Why did you have to do “make clean”? A key point with make is that it only rebuilds the parts that have changed, yet you are forcing it to rebuild everything.

[shadowrealm]

What is the point to do -c first and then compile from object files? It will compile if you just put *.c files right? What is the point of this *.o file, it just seems like extra step for no reason.

[vishnubalaji]

does it work on windows too or any equivalent?

[johnnwick]

Hey, we couldve just included the hello.c file in the main.c code and run gcc main.c. Why are we using makefiles then ?