ZMK is a feature-rich library for writing Makefiles. It provides a good degree of features of the classic auto{conf,make} + libtool tool-chain, while being easier to understand, highly-parallel and, most importantly, devoid of generated cruft that's just unreadable by humans.
include z.mk
Project.Name = hello
Project.Version = 1
hello.Sources = hello.c
$(eval $(call ZMK.Expand,Program,hello))
ZMK integrates nicely with package managers which expect autotools, it comes
with a short, readable configuration script that accepts many of the same
options that autoconf would expose. It's just a make configure away.
- Describe programs, test programs, static libraries, shared libraries, development headers, manual pages and more
- Use familiar targets like "all", "check", "install", "uninstall" and "clean"
- Works out of the box on popular distributions of Linux and MacOS
- Friendly to distribution packaging expecting autotools
- Compile natively with gcc, clang, tcc or the open-watcom compilers
- Cross compile with gcc and open-watcom
- Efficient and incremental, including the install target
Please browse the examples present in the git repository. If you had installed
zmk through the Debian package, the examples are added to the zmk-doc
package. Use dpkg -L zmk-doc to find them.
ZMK is a responsible library. The project promises not to introduce
backwards-incompatible changes in normal circumstances. ZMK is implemented as a
Make library, which effectively means there are only make rules and variables.
ZMK considers all capitalized symbols, such as ZMK.Program to be the public
API covered by the stability guarantee. Internal symbols either start with a
lower case character, or have one immediately following a dot, for example
zmk.foo or ZMK.foo.