/autotools-skeleton

Simple autotools template for quick project bootstrapping

Primary LanguageCBSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

Autotools skeleton

A simple autotools skeleton for quickly setting up new projects

Requirements

  • Automake
  • Autoconf
  • Libtool

Simple steps to create a new autotools project

  1. Clone the repository

  2. Give it a quick try:

     ~# bash autogen.sh
 ~# cd build/
 ~# ../configure
 ~# make
 ~# ./src/my_program
 ~# make check
 ~# make install
 ~# my_program
 ~# make uninstall

  3. Remove .git/ folder

  4. Change parameters in configure.ac, specially AC_INIT() ones

  5. Import your code, setup your favourite revision control system and start customizing the configure.ac and Makefile.am(s) for your project structure...

have fun!

FAQ

  • I get an error after modifying the structure of my project, what shall I do?

    Try re-running autogen.sh first. If this doesn't help you most likely have a misconfiguration.

  • Once I do make install, my_program is not in the path or I cannot link against libmy_lib.so/a.

    This skeleton installs by default binaries in /usr/local/bin, and libraries in /usr/local/lib. Make sure they are on the path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

TODO

  • Add --enable-feature-x and --with-feature-y switch cases in configure.ac
  • Add library checks at configure time
  • Add custom config.h.in

Author

Marc Sune Clos <marcdevel (at) gmail (dot) com>