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# Print without running
$ make --just-print
or
$ make -n
 
# Print lot of stuff
$ make --print-data-base

Automatic variables

# This is a comment
# And this is\
a multi line comment
 
# Define a bunch of variables
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=-std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -O3 -I utils
DEPS=main.o cbuf.o event_system.o fsm.o
OUTFILE=main.exe
 
# VPATH tells make to search the following directories for targets and dependencies. Separated with :
VPATH = utils:../header:src
 
# A rule with any of the following names are always run, even if a file with that name already exists
.PHONY: clean run pre remake asm
 
# A rule that describes how to generate $(OUTFILE), after all of the depencies $(DEPS) has been made
$(OUTFILE): $(DEPS)
	# $@ is the target
	# $< is all the dependencies
	$(CC) -o $@ $< $(CFLAGS)
	@echo "This command line is not echoed thanks to @. The output to stdout is, however, printed"
 
# This rule matches targets ending with .o, and it depends on the same filename ending with .c
%.o: %.c
	$(CC) -c -o $@ $< $(CFLAGS)
 
# A rule that doesn't correspond to a file, thanks to .PHONY, but can always be run
clean:
	@rm -f $(OUTFILE) *.mk *.o *.pp *.s listing.txt

Evaluation time of variables

# This will populate TEXTEN with the output from the shell command ls
TEXTEN = $(lsoutput)      # TEXTEN will contain $(lsouput) and will be evaluated when used
TEXTEN2 := $(lsoutput)    # TEXTEN2 will contain the evaluated $(lsoutput), which is blank at this line
lsoutput = $(shell ls)    # Hereafter $(lsoutput) will evaluate to what ls returns

# Substitutions when referencing variables, only the ending is substituted
SOURCES = a.c b.c c.c
OBJECTS = $(SOURCES:c=o)

# A make file that compiles all c files and places object files
# in the same tree-structure that the sources were found
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -O0 -I. -I utils -I protocol -I command -I driver
OUTFILE = main.exe
 
OBJDIR  := build/objects
SOURCES := $(shell find * -type f -name "*.c")
OBJECTS := $(addprefix $(OBJDIR)/,$(SOURCES:.c=.o))
 
run: $(OUTFILE)
	@echo "";
	@./$(OUTFILE)
 
$(OUTFILE): $(OBJECTS)
	$(CC) -o $@ $^ $(CFLAGS)
 
$(OBJECTS): $(OBJDIR)/%.o: %.c
	mkdir -p $(@D)
	$(CC) -c -o $@ $^ $(CFLAGS)
 
.PHONY: clean
clean:
	@rm -f $(OUTFILE) *.mk *.o *.pp *.s listing.txt
	@rm -rf $(OBJDIR)